Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow

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• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Me

• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • You
  • Unique
  • Clothes

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Music
  • Power

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Best

• I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • History
  • Being
  • Extent

• In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • School
  • Middle School

• Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • True
  • Girl
  • Friendship

• Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • World
  • Help
  • Day

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • Children
  • Abundance

• I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • America
  • Career
  • Sports

• Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

  

  Rumi
  • Calm
  • Insane
  • Sensible

• I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Trusted
  • Drank
  • Smoked

• Until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

  

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
  • Man
  • Equality
  • Won

• We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bad

• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  

  Edward R. Murrow