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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
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They say California's the big burrito Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.
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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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The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
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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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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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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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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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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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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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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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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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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'd much rather wear out than rust out.
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