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" I've never been able to predict the future of anything. "
Bob Edwards
Anything
Future
Never
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" I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. "
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" Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. "
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" I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. "
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" In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. "
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" Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it. "
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" I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. "
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" I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time. "
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" The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it. "
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" At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. "
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" I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again. "
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" Public radio has always been so powerless. "
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" I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. "
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" Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't. "
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" Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. "
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More
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" It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract. "
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Go
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" But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. "
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You
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" I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. "
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Air
About
" If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. "
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" In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting. "
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" That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. "
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" I wanted to be one of the voices in the box. "
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Box
Voices
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" I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much. "
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