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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
Journalist
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Oklahoma
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.
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But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.
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There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table justice offers a place at the table.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
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