Dan Rather Quotes
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
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I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!
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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
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In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
