Walter Cronkite Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I like things simple.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.
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I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.
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After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
