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 takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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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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It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important.
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Books fall open, you fall in.
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To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
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There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
