Walter Cronkite Quotes

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

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 live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

Melissa Bank

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Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.

Mekhi Phifer

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As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

Michael Gove

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It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently.

Tom Frieden

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Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

Robert Caro

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I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.

Jason Mraz

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No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being.

Douglas Rushkoff

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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Bob Hope

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I remember the first time eating my chef's Caesar salad. It was just like one of those moments in the movie theater when everything gets quiet.

Rick Ross

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If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.

Kris Carr

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I would love to do more television.

Kevin McHale

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Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.

Gwen Stefani

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