American - Journalist | September 10, 1934 - July 4, 1997
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
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It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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