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" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "
Mike Wallace
Else
One Thing
Thing
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" 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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" You want to put a man at ease. "
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" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "
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End
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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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Friends
Today
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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
Light
" Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. "
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Imagine
" I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. "
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Loved
Questions
" I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago. "
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Years
Acting
Game
" 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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School
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Know
" 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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You
Today
Smoking
" I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. "
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Myself
Writing
Much
" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "
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Integrity
Credibility
Important
" 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
" 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 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
" Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. "
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School
Year
Neighborhood
" 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.' "
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Night
Good Night
Good Luck
" 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
Become
" 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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Me
Young
Work
" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "
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Story
Never
Period
" There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path. "
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Depression
Good
Yourself
" 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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Walk
Want
Phone
" I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella. "
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You
Growing
Feel
" 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
" I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. "
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Hell
Reporter
Reading
" All I'm armed with is research. "
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Research
Armed
" I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' "
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World
People
Me
" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "
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Enough
Worry
Questions
" When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. "
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Announcer
University
Michigan