Edward R. Murrow Quotes
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.
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I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
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The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
