Charles Kuralt Quotes - Page 3

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• Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

  Charles Kuralt

  Romantic Love, Would Be, Looks

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• It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

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  Love You, Mind, Privilege

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• I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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  Philosophy, People, Important

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• There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

  Charles Kuralt

  Touched, Conscience

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• TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

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  Hate, Writing, Air

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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

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  Achievement, Credit, Fortune

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

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  Real, Literature, World

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• I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

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  Thinking, Insomnia, Ambitious

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• I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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  Literature, Reader

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• America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

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  Rivers, America, Stories

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• I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

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  Ulcers, Pressure, I've Learned

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• If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

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  Heaven, Bills, Sun

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

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  Running, Rivers, People

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• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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• I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

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  Ambition, Opportunity, Newspapers

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

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  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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  Kind, Social, Reformers

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• I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Done

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• I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

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  Jobs, Good Luck, Years

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• Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

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• I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

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  Morning, Kids, School

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• My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

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  Mother, Workout, Father

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• New York is the true City of Light in any season.

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  New York, Light, Cities

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• That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

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  Typewriters, Joy, Trying

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• I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

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  Journalism, Bigs, Competitiveness

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