Peter Jennings Quotes

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

Peter Jennings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 29, 1938 - August 7, 2005

Topics

OrganizationThinkLooksUsWho

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Jim Lehrer

SadCitySmallTraveledCountryGo

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Jerry Weller

LifeMotherAbortionSaveExcept

You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army tank coming at you. You see it on a TV screen, it's one thing. You see it at a movie theater, that's something else. When that thing's coming at you 70 feet high and 180 feet long, now that looks like a tank.

Jerry Jones

PeopleFeetArmyLongYouLook

I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.

Meghan Daum

PeopleSweetSmallBookThinkShort

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

Matt Taibbi

TeaPeopleProblemPartyWayOwn

I've been blacklisted in Hollywood.

Stacey Dash

HollywoodBeen

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

Simon Winchester

TimeBrokenRememberEarthForget

I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.

Tom Weston-Jones

WorkMyselfPeopleUncomfortableYou

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Judith Jamison

YouPersonKnowWantHumanWhole

My parents met when they were 16 and bonded over the antiwar movement.

Corey Stoll

ParentsOverMovementMetWere

I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.

Brandon Victor Dixon

KidAlwaysLittleStarBroadway

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

Brad Schneider

MoneyDayLongCostReturnBorrow

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