Walter Cronkite Quotes

Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

Walter Cronkite

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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

Ian Millar
- Strong
- Dead
- Older
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

Karen Bender
- People
- Thought
- Weird
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

Walter Salles
- Think
- Beginning
- Process
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Good
- Bad
- Chance
That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

Yvonne Strahovski
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

Ted Olson
- Up
- California
- Diversity