Walter Cronkite Quotes
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Quotes to Explore
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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I'm just an actor.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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I love Manchester. I like being here, and certainly I see myself being here for a good while yet.
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Given Iraq's strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
