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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.”
“TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.”
“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”
“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.”
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
“I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.”
“Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.”
“Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.”
“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.”
“I'm not any kind of social reformer.”
“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.”
“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”
“My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.”
“When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.”
“I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.”
“For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.”
“I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.”
“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.”
“I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.”
“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.”