Mike Wallace Quotes
I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
Quotes to Explore
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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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.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.
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Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.
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I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
