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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
- Nov 07, 2020
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020