Dan Rather Quotes
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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.