Bob Edwards Quotes

• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  Bob Edwards

  Radio, Listeners

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• The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

  Bob Edwards

  Friendship, Differences, Helping

  Bob Edwards (1976). “The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards”

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• When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

  Bob Edwards

  Funny, Problem, Said

  Bob Edwards (1976). “The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards”

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• It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

  Bob Edwards

  Brain, Madness, Mediums

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• Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

  Bob Edwards

  Long, Earth, Meek

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• Public radio has always been so powerless.

  Bob Edwards

  Radio, Public Radio, Powerless

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• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

  Bob Edwards

  Grandmother, Opera, Soap

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• Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Thinking, Dry Up, Organization

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• Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

  Bob Edwards

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

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• I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

  Bob Edwards

  Talking, Elements, Excited

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• The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Crazy, Pals, Radio

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• In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

  Bob Edwards

  Ambition, College, Rights

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• One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

  Bob Edwards

  Hate, Trouble, Hate You

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• At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

  Bob Edwards

  Rivers, Kentucky, Indiana

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• I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

  Bob Edwards

  Guy, News, Conservative

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• If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

  Bob Edwards

  Jobs, White, Blue

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• I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

  Bob Edwards

  Air, Office

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• Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

  Bob Edwards

  Work Out, Interviews, Tape

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• I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

  Bob Edwards

  Class

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• That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

  Bob Edwards

  Issues, Radio, Interviews

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• But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

  Bob Edwards

  Slavery, Genealogy, Impressive

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• I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

  Bob Edwards

  Able

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• Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

  Bob Edwards

  Ties, Looks, Care

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• Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

  Bob Edwards

  Children, Parent, Quality

  "Science friction", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 1999.

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• I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

  Bob Edwards

  Home, Bed, Noon

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