Bill Kurtis Quotes

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• There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
• I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
• The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
• Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to…
• The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this…
• My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.
• Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.
• I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.
• I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
• I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.
• If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get…
• In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
• Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
• That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.
• There's room for a diversity of ages on television.
• You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
• A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license…
• All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself…
• First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and…
• I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help…

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