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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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 didn't particularly like being objectified.
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People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.
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McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
