"The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched."

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Source : "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

Scott Pelley

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.”

Source : Josephus Daniels (1941). “Editor in Politics”
“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist”
“Sidwell, Parker and Duff are all coming back to pastures old, as the saying goes”
“I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.”
“I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.”
“It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials”
“If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.”

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