Dan Rather Quotes
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
-
Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
-
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
-
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
-
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
-
Golf is not easy.
-
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
-
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
-
What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
-
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
-
'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
-
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
-
Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
-
There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
-
Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.
-
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
