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.
BOB EDWARDSOne trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
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I’m still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It’s the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
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Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.
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I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
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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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One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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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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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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I wake about 1 a.m. I’m in the office by 2 a.m. We’re on the air at 5.
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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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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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Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
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