Dan Rather Quotes
I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj - we may not win, but we would have a lot of fun [in 4x400m relay team].
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To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it.
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I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
