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" My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. "

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" All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world. "

" The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming. "

" Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism. "

" We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue. "

" The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer. "

" Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading. "

" You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo. "

" I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times. "

" Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible. "

" There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that. "

" You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. "

" With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks. "

" I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. "

" There's room for a diversity of ages on television. "

" The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that. "

" 'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking. "

" A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds. "

" First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it. "

" In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job. "

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" I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool. "