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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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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Society's the mother of convention.
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I just remember having the President's Fitness Challenge when I was in elementary school and middle school. You had to do different activities, and at the end of it, I think you got a little pin or a badge. I was like, 'How do we incorporate Captain America into high school?' You would have the 'Captain America Fitness Challenge.'
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In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them.
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It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.
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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
