Walter Cronkite Quotes
It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
