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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
Journalist
Greensboro
North Carolina
Edward Roscoe Murrow
Egbert Roscoe Murrow
Egbert Murrow
Edward Murrow
Ed Murrow
Men
Shifts
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Wishing
Elsewhere
Pivots
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Body
Urgently
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It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
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Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.
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Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.
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One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
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To be credible we must be truthful.
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The obscure we always see sooner or later the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
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Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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