Walter Cronkite Quotes

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

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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See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

John Fahey

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I am against the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

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I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.

Andie MacDowell

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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston

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People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

Michael Hayden

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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Alphonse Karr

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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

Martina Hingis

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Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Jon Hamm

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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day

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I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

Christine McVie

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I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Armistead Maupin

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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Wyndham Lewis

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