Diane Sawyer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.”
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“A good marriage is a contest of generosity.”
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“I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth”
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“I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.”
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“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”
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“If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.”
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“Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.”
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“Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.”
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“My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.”
-- Diane SawyerSource : "Diane Sawyer Kicks Off Oprah Winfrey Network’s ‘Master Class’ Series", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.
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“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
-- Diane SawyerSource : Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.
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“I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.”
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“I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.”
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“I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.”
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“I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.”
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“Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.”
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“Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!”
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“People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.”
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“I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”
-- Diane SawyerSource : Attributed to Diane Sawyer in R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis "Increasing patient satisfaction" (p. 185), 1996.
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“An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.”
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“You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.”
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“There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.”
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“I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.”
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“I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.”
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“Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.”
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“Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.”
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“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”
-- Diane SawyerSource : FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Jul 31, 2014
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“One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.”
-- Diane Sawyer
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