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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Charles Kuralt

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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
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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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 believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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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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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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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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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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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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.
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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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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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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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