Eric Sevareid Quotes
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
