Ted Koppel Quotes

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• If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is…
• Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your…
• There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
• I have the necessary lack of tact.
• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
• My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do…
• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It…
• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to…
• There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common
• What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
• To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some…
• People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
• It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
• You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
• Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor…
• A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change…
• Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

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