Dan Rather Quotes
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather
Quotes to Explore
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'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
Tahl Raz
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
Nancy Gibbs
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
H. G. Bissinger
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
Dan Hill
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Tanya Tucker
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
Taylor Negron
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
Major Taylor
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.
Craig Claiborne
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
Sam Riley
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
S. Truett Cathy
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather
