Daniel Schorr famous quotes
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
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Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
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There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
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Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.
-- Daniel Schorr
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
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It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.
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By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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