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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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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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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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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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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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
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If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
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I'll go to a restaurant where I've never been before, and someone will say, "I don't have anything big for you to eat." I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day, what they're saying is, "I know who you are. I watch your stuff." What's better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing. What am I being pissy about?
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.
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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.
