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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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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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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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.
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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.
