Ed Bradley Quotes

United States, Journalist
June 22, 1941 – November, 9, 2006.

Edward Rudolph "Ed" Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, CBS Sunday Night News with Ed Bradley. He received several awards for his work including the Peabody, the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, Radio Television Digital News Association Paul White (journalist) Award and 19 Emmy Awards.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

Ed Bradley
- People
- Myself
- Story
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

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- Up
- Experience
- Game

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

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- Up
- Business
- Father
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

Ed Bradley
- Guy
- Air
- Thoughts
In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight.

Ed Bradley
Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

Ed Bradley
- Good
- She
And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

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- Always
- Better
- Luck
There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Ed Bradley
- Work
- Me
- Work Hard

I've always said when I die and if I do get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says, what have you done to deserve entry, I'd ask him if he'd saw my Lina Horn piece. It's always been a favorite of mine.

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- Done
- Die
Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

Ed Bradley
- God
- Training
- Model
Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.

Ed Bradley
I learned this from Mike Wallace. Listen, be a good listener. You don't have to fill space. Just sit there and listen.

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- Good
- Space