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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
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By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.
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Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Americans are once again looking outward
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A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.
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The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
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You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
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We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.
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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
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I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
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I know that this story is true.
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