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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
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Opinion Journalist
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Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
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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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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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Americans are once again looking outward
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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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I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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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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The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
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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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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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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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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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It's the old shell game.
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
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