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I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.

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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
Journalist
News Presenter
Opinion Journalist
Television Producer
Wharton
Texas
Daniel Irvin Dan Rather
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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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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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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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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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
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When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.
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It's the old shell game.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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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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A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.
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Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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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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