Jim Lehrer Quotes
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
