Morley Safer Quotes
We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
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Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.
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Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.
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I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.
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I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'
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The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
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I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
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When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
