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" 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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Birthday

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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? "

" Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. "

" I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. "

" 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. "

Mike Wallace

Going

Become

" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "

" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "

" 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. "

" You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist. "

Mike Wallace

You

Want

" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "

" There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job. "

" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "

" When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

Mike Wallace

Boston

Sun

" 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. "

" I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. "

Mike Wallace

Sleep

Wake Up

" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "