Walter Cronkite Quotes

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

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 left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

Andy Hertzfeld

FoodInternetMagicHouseBecome

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

Angela Braly

QuestionGetCostsReallyUnderlying

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Jeb Bush

BondEnvironmentYouCreateWay

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Robert C. Solomon

TodayBalanceBackMoreSixties

Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere.

Tom Colicchio

New YorkChefTexasYouChoiceKnow

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Robertson Davies

ImaginationMeIdeasGet

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Michael Leunig

LifeNatureSpiritualMeBelieve

Honestly, if I'm around people I like, I can do nothing and have a good time. But when I have downtime, I like to go get a burger.

Lucky Blue Smith

GoodTimePeopleBurgerI CanGo

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine di Giovanni

TogetherResearchBookPuzzleYou

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

Jonny Wilkinson

I AmConversationPlayHeadGoing

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

Cheryl Ladd

MotherSheAnythingLikeAbsolutely

'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.

Claire Coffee

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