Ted Koppel Quotes
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
