Dan Rather Quotes
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
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In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.
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I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.
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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
