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 can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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.
Ford Frick
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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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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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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 like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.
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By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
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I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'
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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.
