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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If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
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History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.
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W.H. Auden has gone in the right direction, and a great deal too far.
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I'm not motivated by having the largest revenue base - you get that as an outcome. If we do our job well, we will be appropriately rewarded.
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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.
