Dan Rather Quotes
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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.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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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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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Making music is fantastic.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
