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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
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President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.
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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 proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you (b) I know and I can't tell you (c) I don't know.
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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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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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The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I know that this story is true.
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If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.
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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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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
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I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.
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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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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.
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