Harry Reasoner Quotes

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

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• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • America
  • Wilderness

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Me
  • View

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Couple

• I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Like

• I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Kind
  • Failure
  • Successful

• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Fear

• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • You
  • Look
  • Where

• I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Game
  • Growing

• A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Horse

• I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

  

  Alan Colmes

• People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...

  

  Andrew Lakey
  • Want
  • Find
  • Meaning

• There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.

  

  Steve Mann
  • Companies
  • Glass
  • Smartphones

• It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

  

  Alice Barrett
  • People
  • Support
  • Leaving

• There's always some pressure to achieve something. You make a pilot, but you don't know if you're going to get a show. And then, you make a show, but you don't know if people are going to watch. And then, people watch, but you don't know if enough people are watching.

  

  Charles Halford
  • People
  • Enough
  • Shows

• If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

  

  Harry Reasoner
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