Ed Bradley Quotes

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• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck…
• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
• As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my…
• And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.
• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success…
• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
• The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said…
• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league,…
• I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say,…
• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the…
• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and…
• My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like…
• The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
• I did anything that would get me on the air.

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