"I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think."

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Source : "NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.freerepublic.com. June 28, 2001.

Shepard Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes

“There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.”
“Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.”
“A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.”

Source : "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.
“Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.”
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”
“Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.”
“An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.”
“I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!”

Source : "‘Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills’ Recap: Camille’s Claws Come Out" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2013.

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