Walter Cronkite Quotes
And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.
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We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.
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I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
