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.
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Age for me is just a number.
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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.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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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.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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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.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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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.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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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.
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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.'
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.
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Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
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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.
