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" You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. "
Morley Safer
New York
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" No great pastry chef has sweet teeth. "
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" Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask. "
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" What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. "
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" After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air. "
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" Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. "
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" In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. "
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" Killing is the payoff of war. "
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" When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.' "
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" The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed. "
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" I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery. "
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" The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton. "
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" I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs. "
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" Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. "
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" I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. "
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Me
" I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. "
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" I don't see myself as a Luddite. "
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" Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep. "
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Go
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Me
" Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. "
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Pilgrims
Soon
" Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. "
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Just
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" I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life. "
Morley Safer
Stars
Really
Care
" Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. "
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Influence
" Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. "
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Rich
Clinton
Marc
" After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. "
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War
Work
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" When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that. "
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Alive
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" What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? "
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" I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties. "
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Always
" You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. "
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" I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk. "
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" I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I? "
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