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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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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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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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
