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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

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Morley Safer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1931
Born: November 8
Died: 2016
Died: May 19
Journalist
Television Presenter
War Correspondent
Writer
City of Toronto
Popular
Culture
Reality
Anything
Sleazy
Manipulative
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A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.
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This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.
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I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
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Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
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I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
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When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
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Killing is the payoff of war.
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It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
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BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.
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Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
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Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
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BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.
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The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.
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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
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I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
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In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
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What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
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The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.
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