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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.

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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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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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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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 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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You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
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The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
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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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