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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I believe in forgiveness.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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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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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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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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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
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My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.
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The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.
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I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
