Jim Lehrer Quotes
Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
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I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
