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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
Charles Kuralt
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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.
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I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.
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