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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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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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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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
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You would hear stories of people that lost their houses. I remember people who had their whole lives turned upside down. I think people did learn lessons from the '80s.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
