Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
BILL MOYERSIn fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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