Walter Cronkite Quotes
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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I am very blessed.
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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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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
