Ed Bradley Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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People know that they can tune in to '60 Minutes' any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.