Scott Pelley Quotes

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Scott Pelley

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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Debate

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• I've been a lucky boy.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Boy
  • Lucky
  • Been

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • President
  • Will
  • Nation

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • May
  • Everyone

• Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Fine
  • Level

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• It seems that you live in someone else's dream In a hand-me-down wedding dress With the things that could have been are repressed But you said your vows and you closed the door On so many men who would have loved you more

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Men
  • Live
  • Dream

• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • Kids
  • Simple

• My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Life

• People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

  

  Azim Premji
  • People
  • Education
  • Control

• We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Work
  • Country
  • School

• I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Dying
  • Toothpick

• PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

  

  Rasmus Lerdorf
  • Job
  • Read
  • Toothbrush

• Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nature
  • Horror
  • Flesh

• "I can see in the dark." "That may be so, Mulla. But if it is true, why do you sometimes carry a candle at night?" "To prevent other people from bumping into me."

  

  Nasreddin
  • Dark
  • Candle
  • Bump

• Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Journalism
  • Gossip
  • Antidote