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Jim Lehrer Quotes

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Jim Lehrer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 19, 1934

Topics

I Am Practice Story Questions Asking

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Robert Lansing

Old Porch Neighborhood Guy Kids His

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Michael Bloomberg

Live People World Look Tragedy Know

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

Tommy Cooper

Me Kitchen You Cheese Said Legs

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

Rithy Panh

Creativity Poetry More Need After

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

Lloyd Blankfein

Capitalism Place Pure System Fact

I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.

Jon Gruden

Being Like Calling Plays

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

Jon Landau

Style Early Repetition Blues Rock

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

Learning Myself Experience I Am You

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

Chuck Close

Learning High Artists Left-Handed

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

Phaedrus

Learning Mind Thinking Better Return

We can have open and good discussion with our Republican brothers and sisters. But when we walk into the chapel we should leave our political differences out in the parking lot.

Scott Howell

Good Walk Political Differences Open

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

Richard Flanagan

Tradition Out Come Literary