“The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say ‘we’ll let it go this time,’ you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.”

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

Frontline’ does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

I travel so much on stories, so I don’t take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

I’ve been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

There’s room for a diversity of ages on television.

If you’re a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot – and you’re willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I’m running a 100-yard dash, and I haven’t reached the end.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it’s predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I’m so old I’m in. We call it the ‘Tony Bennett Syndrome.’ For some reason, young people think I’m cool.

On my football field, I know what bliss is. My team cuddles more than the missus. We won’t inject drugs, just oodles of hugs. I warm up my team with some kisses.

I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

There’s something magical about putting yourself into life. You’ve got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments – what do your remember when you’re alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

Good luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don’t have to listen to everything they think or say.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.