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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Heroes
Luck
Worship
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Picked

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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
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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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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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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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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
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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.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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 had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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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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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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