Morley Safer Quotes

I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.

Morley Safer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 8, 1931 - May 19, 2016

Topics

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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Jean Froissart

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There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

Tracey Emin

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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Robert Fisk

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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Robert Anton Wilson

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Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously.

Ron Funches

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In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

Miranda Seymour

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If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

Mo Ibrahim

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I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Jasper Fforde

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I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

Jon Ronson

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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.

Chesley Sullenberger

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