Hugh Downs Quotes

• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

  Hugh Downs

  Gun, Wind, People

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• To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

  Hugh Downs

  Teamwork, Fate, Boat

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• The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

  Hugh Downs

  Freedom, Responsibility, Priceless

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• Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

  Hugh Downs

  Hate, Hatred, Ifs

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• This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• Life begins when you do.

  Hugh Downs

  Carpe Diem, Carpe

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• I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

  Hugh Downs

  Dirty, Men, Want

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• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

  Hugh Downs

  Beach, Stars, Spring

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• Television is the medium of the 20th century.

  Hugh Downs

  Television, Century, Mediums

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• If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

  Hugh Downs

  Farewell, Opportunity, America

  ABC News, November 1990.

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• How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

  Hugh Downs

  Numbers, World, Ends

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• The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

  Hugh Downs

  Research, Mature, Introspection

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• As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

  Hugh Downs

  Intelligent, Moon, Land

  "NSS Mourns Neil Armstrong – Calls for Renewed Emphasis on Human Space Exploration". www.nss.org. August 26, 2012.

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• I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

  Hugh Downs

  Air, Oxygen, Missing

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• We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

  Hugh Downs

  Country, Party, Ideas

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