Jim Lehrer Quotes

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

Jim Lehrer

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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

Jessie Mueller

TimeNew YorkCollegeMeLookPlace

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Meister Eckhart

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I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Steven Yeun

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Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Tom Yawkey

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When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.

Rory Culkin

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I love to play in Detroit.

Miguel Cabrera

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It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

Michael Palmer

TiredPeopleMeCareTake CareTake

I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

Dita Von Teese

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The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

Donatella Versace

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Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

Dayananda Saraswati

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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Alfred Jodl

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Art thou the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

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