108 Quotes by Edward R. Murrow
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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..
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Fame is morally neutral.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
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Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
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I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.
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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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