Dan Rather Quotes
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
