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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, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' "
Mike Wallace
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Good Night
Good Luck
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" I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. "
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" What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush? "
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" But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse. "
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" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "
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" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "
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" To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. "
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" All I'm armed with is research. "
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" I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old. "
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" I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. "
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Even
Loved
Questions
" My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. "
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" The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. "
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Information
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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 maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. "
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Candid
Done
" Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. "
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Seconds
Hang
Four
" When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. "
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Mean
Mother
Work
" I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. "
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Years
Always
You
" We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear. "
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Look
" There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job. "
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Than
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" Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever. "
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Know
Way
Why
" I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts. "
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More
Going
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" In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. "
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Way
Best
Possible
" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "
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Enough
Worry
Questions
" 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 a joy. "
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Joy
You
Learn
" You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. "
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Know
Story
Crazy
" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "
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Face
Anchor
Defied
" We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. "
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" I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work? "
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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, don't fully understand that. "
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Country
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" I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have. "
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Did
Kids
Should
" I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person. "
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Person
Feel
" Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. "
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