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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.
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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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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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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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
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I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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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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