Scott Pelley Quotes
Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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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.
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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
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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.
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My whole life, I've guarded guys bigger than me.
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People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
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When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
