Lowell Bergman Quotes
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
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American music culture is black culture.
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I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
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Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
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My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
