Ted Koppel Quotes

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • You
  • Need

• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Day
  • Sleep

• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • She
  • Book

• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Truth
  • Fear

• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Grow

• I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Country
  • She

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Respect
  • Popular

• The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Taken
  • Philosophy
  • Battle

• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Strong
  • Golf
  • Gift

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Together
  • Change
  • Marriage

• People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Being
  • Barbie

• Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Nature
  • Funny
  • Boy

• The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Comfort

• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Home
  • Night
  • Black

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Now
  • Kings
  • Fools