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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
Correspondent
Journalist
News Presenter
New York City
New York
Charles Bishop Kuralt
Later
Youth
Change
Best
Might
Mind
Something
Leap
Love
Privilege

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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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You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
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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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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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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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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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 think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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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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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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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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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 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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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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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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