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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In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
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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.
