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I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
Charles Kuralt
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
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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 I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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