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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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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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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We made America more respected around the world, took on the mantle of leadership in the fight to protect this planet for our kids, and much, much more.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
