"If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it."

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Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

Jim Lehrer

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.”
“Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
“I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone. Nobody wants you to think about anything new or use your brain or make anything interesting because everything important has already been made. America is over; it's done being brilliant.Everything genius has already been built, like all the great works of art have already been produced.”
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
“No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.”
“If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.”
“It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.”

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