Peter Jennings Quotes

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Bad
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Great
  • History
  • Moral

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Like
  • Never
  • Lift

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • American
  • Career
  • Woman

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Work
  • Trying

• As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

  

  Mike Rounds
  • People
  • Strong
  • Enough

• I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

  

  Peter Jennings
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