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# Mike Wallace

(1980–2012)   Basketball Player   United States

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Mike Wallace was a basketball player from the United States, best known for *Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates*.

## Quick Facts About Mike Wallace

Born June 19, 1980

Died April 7, 2012

Nationality United States

Profession Basketball Player

Notable works Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

Known for 60 Minutes

Spouse Buff Cobb

## About Mike Wallace

Myron Leon Wallace was an American broadcast journalist, and television personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. He is the father of Chris Wallace.

## Awards & Honors

Ellis Island Medal of Honor star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

##  Quotes by Mike Wallace · Page 3

> [“By 1864 Wall Streeters had spies in the Confederate high command and could learn southern battle plans before colonels in the Army…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/by-1864-wall-streeters-had-spies-in-the-confederate-high-command-and/)

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[Confederate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/confederate/)

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> [“pollution and public health. In 1908 Gotham’s 120,000 horses deposited 60,000 gallons of urine and 2.5 million pounds of manure on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/pollution-and-public-health-in-1908-gotham-s-120-000-horses-deposited/)

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[City streets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city-streets/)

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> [“As George Francis Train boasted in 1857, it was “the locomotive of these United States,” pulling the rest of the nation faster…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/as-george-francis-train-boasted-in-1857-it-was-the-locomotive-of/)

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[Locomotive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/locomotive/)

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> [“Moments later Hamilton had a second confrontation with prominent opponents of the treaty, shouting that he would “fight the whole party one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/moments-later-hamilton-had-a-second-confrontation-with-prominent/)

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[Time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/)

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> [“But Comstock, who considered Bennett “everything vile in Blasphemy and Infidelism,” nailed him for mailing an “obscene” scientific pamphlet (How do Marsupials…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/but-comstock-who-considered-bennett-everything-vile-in-blasphemy-and/)

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[Blasphemy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blasphemy/)

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> [Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/even-a-liberal-reporter-is-a-patriot-wants-the-best-for-this-country/)

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[Balanced](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/balanced/)

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> [“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/when-the-popular-actor-john-hodgkinson-appeared-in-the-red-coat-of-a/)

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[Actor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/actor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/mike-wallace-5222_actor_when-the-popular-actor-john-hodgkinson-a_69816.png)

> [“Hoop skirts blocked traffic, which is why Mme. Demorest’s Imperial “dress-elevator” was immensely popular: its weighted strings allowed women to raise or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/hoop-skirts-blocked-traffic-which-is-why-mme-demorest-s-imperial/)

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[Fashion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fashion/)

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> [“By 1857 there were at least 112 publishers in New York City. While most were “respectable” houses, emphasizing genteel, religious, and domestic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/by-1857-there-were-at-least-112-publishers-in-new-york-city-while/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/poe-had-invented-a-genre-the-detective-story-that-played-upon-but-in/)

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[Social order](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/social-order/)

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> [“From Feltman’s, they might have walked to see the Elephant, a wood-framed, tinskinned hotel, 150 feet long and 122 feet high. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/from-feltman-s-they-might-have-walked-to-see-the-elephant-a-wood/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/in-making-the-jump-from-a-local-program-to-the-showcase-of-a-coast-to/)

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[Beat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beat/)

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> [“Crime stories were paralleled in popularity by the occasional hoaxes the paper concocted. In August 1835 Day began publishing a series of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/crime-stories-were-paralleled-in-popularity-by-the-occasional-hoaxes/)

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[Hoaxes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hoaxes/)

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> [Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/covering-richard-nixon-s-triumphant-run-in-1968-turned-out-to-be-my/)

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[Assignment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assignment/)

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> [Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/both-my-parents-came-from-russia-and-suddenly-they-wound-up-in-boston/)

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[Backsides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backsides/)

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> [“In the early 1870s Feltman, a German immigrant, had opened a shanty stand at the beach and begun selling clam roasts, ice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/in-the-early-1870s-feltman-a-german-immigrant-had-opened-a-shanty/)

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[Ice cream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ice-cream/)

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> [I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/i-did-game-shows-i-did-interview-shows-i-did-talk-shows-i-did/)

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[Acting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acting/)

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> [“An eccentric Connecticut whaling captain named Preserved Fish and his cousin-partner Joseph Grinnell shifted from hawking New Bedford whale oil to running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/an-eccentric-connecticut-whaling-captain-named-preserved-fish-and-his/)

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[Whaling Captain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/whaling-captain-5364081/)

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> [We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/we-were-the-first-people-who-did-investigative-stuff-who-asked/)

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[Asked](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asked/)

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> [I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/i-cannot-improve-on-those-spoken-for-many-years-by-a-true-legend-who/)

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[Good luck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-luck/)

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> [It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/it-s-astonishing-what-you-learn-and-feel-and-see-along-the-way-that-s/)

[Mike Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-wallace/)

[Astonishing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astonishing/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffe/mike-wallace-5222_astonishing_it-s-astonishing-what-you-learn-and-feel_12394.png)

> [I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-wallace/i-read-rip-and-read-news-but-i-wasn-t-a-reporter-i-was-reading-the/)

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[Commercial](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/commercial/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/mike-wallace-5222_commercial_i-read-rip-and-read-news-but-i-wasn-t-a_1913906.png)

## Mike Wallace by topic

[You (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/you/mike-wallace/)

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