Edward R. Murrow Quotes
Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I want the single player experience.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
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If I go on to the pitch, do things well and the fans love me and my team-mates, too, we take on that energy which can change a game.
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There has been speculation through the years that Elvis has his eyes done or some other mystery procedure, but that mini facelift was the extent of his plastic surgery.
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I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
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Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or perhaps color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
