Peter Jennings Quotes
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
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Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.
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I get income, but I don't have a big swath of money to invest in things.
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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
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I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
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I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
