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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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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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.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.
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Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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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.
