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• I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

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  Mother, Father, Kids

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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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• You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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  Stories, Towns, Kind

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

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  Touched, Conscience

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

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  Achievement, Credit, Fortune

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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.

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  Father, Hate, Boys

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• For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

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  Jobs, Years, Bills

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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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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

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  Impact, People, Stories

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• I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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  Kind, Social, Reformers

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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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• 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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• I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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  Writing, Thinking, Years

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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 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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• 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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• 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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