Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.
BOB EDWARDSIt’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
More Bob Edwards Quotes
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I go home by noon, and I’m in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you’re wearing one, and I don’t.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to – by genealogy at least – a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I’ve ever read about slavery before.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
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The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.
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That’s the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they’ve been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
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One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
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Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn’t work when you think about it.
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Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
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It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
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