American - Journalist | June 5, 1934 -
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Bill Moyers
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
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America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
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