Walter Cronkite Quotes
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.
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There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
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This past year over 300 graduates went to work for P.A.M. Trucking, ... Over 300 graduates went to work for USA Trucking and over 100 went to work for Star Transportation.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
