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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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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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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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.
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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
