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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
Correspondent
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New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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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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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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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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 gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
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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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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 used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
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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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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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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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