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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.
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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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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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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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
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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 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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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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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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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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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
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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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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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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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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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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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