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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
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Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
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