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David Muir Quotes

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 8, 1973

Topics

Think Evening News Evolving Nimble

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Research Writing You Down Go Matter

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Politics Go Will Way Everyone Agree

Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.

Run Ball Through Quarterback Where

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Nature Leadership Daily Great Detail

Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at the same thing with people. So we can tell, for example, who you interact with more frequently. Or if it's not frequency, maybe it's consistency.

People Consistency You Look Kind

I would leave my wife for Whataburger.

Wife Leave Would

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

Down Hard Monsters Favor Taking

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Confidence Job Yourself Believe You

Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.

Mother Daughter Sun People Result

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

Golf Play Awful Even Though

People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect.

Respect People Problems Think You

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Best People Situation Know Him Up

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