Morley Safer Quotes
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
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My own belief is all men should be feminists, and with enthusiasm.
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
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I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.
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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
