Ted Koppel Quotes
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
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At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.
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Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
