Linda Ellerbee Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”
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“In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.”
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“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”
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“A good time to laugh is any time you can.”
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“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”
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“I think laughter may be a form of courage As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.”
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“Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.”
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“The best time to laugh is anytime you can.”
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“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.”
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“How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.”
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“We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.”
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“It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.”
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“When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.”
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“Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.”
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“When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.”
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“A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"”
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“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”
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“I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.”
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“I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.”
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“in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.”
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“There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.”
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“Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.”
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“I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.”
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“Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.”
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“It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.”
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“There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.”
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“I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.”
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“What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.”
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“I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.”
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