Edward R. Murrow Quotes
I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
Quotes to Explore
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.
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It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
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My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
