Dan Rather Quotes

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• Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
• It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority.…
• The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
• We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.
• I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the…
• If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.
• Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
• Journalism is less addictive than communism.
• I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
• I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
• I quote the late Ed Murow. ... He said: 'Look, people listen to me when they want an eyewitness account. 'They think I'm a pretty…
• Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least,…
• In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I…
• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when…
• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
• To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you…
• Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into…
• One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

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