One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
BOB SCHAFFERAnd 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
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