Dan Rather Quotes
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
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Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.
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I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
