"I'm in the reporting part of journalism."

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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

#Journalism Quotes

“Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.”
“When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.”
“I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.”

Source : "Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.
“I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.”
“We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.”

Source : "Rumsfeld Makes McNamara Look Good" by Maureen Dowd, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2011.
“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”
“I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.”
“When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.”

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