Dan Rather Quotes
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... The EEC is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
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If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.
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Don’t say my name like that. Please, Your Grace. If you have any care for me at all - pretend to flirt. But don’t actually do it.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
