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" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "
Walter Cronkite
Got
Think
Dinosaur
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" Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible. "
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" I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report. "
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" I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate. "
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" The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon. "
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History
Man
" You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might. "
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" Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience. "
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" I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more. "
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" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "
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" Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. "
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Acceptance
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" Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence. "
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" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "
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" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "
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" I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go. "
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Think
Go
" I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this. "
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Vietnam
Thought
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" I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am. "
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Taking
Valid
Stand
" I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. "
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Every Day
Day
Birthday
" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "
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" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "
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" I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. "
Walter Cronkite
Old
Different
Name
" I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. "
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Moving
Competition
Think
" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "
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Trips
Never
" I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition. "
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" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "
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" The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. "
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Great
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" Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. "
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" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "
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" Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised. "
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" It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role. "
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" If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing. "
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War
Small
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