Walter Cronkite Quotes

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

Walter Cronkite

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009

Topics

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I don't see myself making comedies always.

Jody Hill

MyselfAlwaysSeeMakingComedies

I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

Jenny Eclair

LoveAgeFashionRememberClothes

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

LoveArtFunLongBadRun

I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.

Matt Lauer

FunnyLuckyKidsVery

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

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I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

Tom King

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I'm a member of the American legion and VFW, patron member of the Jewish War Veterans.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

Rush Limbaugh

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I'm kosher except for times where I eat pork and shellfish.

Roseanne Barr

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Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Mick Fleetwood

MusicSurviveEasyMusicallyPieces

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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