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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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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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 uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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When it's all said and done, I'm held responsible for our budget. If I had the latitude, there's nothing I would rather do than grant everybody's wishes. Unfortunately, I'm not in that position.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
