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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

Bob Schaffer

But, you know, they’re glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.
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Football Nobody Police Reporter Show
I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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Jobs Literature Thinking
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
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Art Foundation Writing
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Ago Football Games Long
Government is just spending too much money.
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Government Spending
They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Life Literature Mean
It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
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Mean Perspective Trying
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
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Morning Night People
Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
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Complicated Government Way
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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Country Money Spending
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
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Community Impact Thinking
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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Literature Past People
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
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Hands Touching Voters
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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Answers Literature Trying
There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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Competition Guests Stories
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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Confidence Mistakes Self Way
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays – beyond their meaning – a factor in our economy.
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Christmas Football Thanksgiving
Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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Betting Doubt Himself
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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Canada Children Mother
The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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Firsts Government Way
Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
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Administration Parent Problem Trouble
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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Two Writing Years
I used to be a print reporter.
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Literature Print Used
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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Dollars Inspirational Motivation
But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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Literature Matter Miserable
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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Government Impossible Unlikely
The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
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Color Government Tired

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