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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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Billie and I got chased through the traffic once in a car. You expect paparazzi to do that, but when it's normal people you start to think the world's gone a bit mad.
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It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
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God is an utter Nothingness, Beyond the touch of Time and Place: The more thou graspest after Him, The more he fleeth thy embrace.
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
