Ted Koppel quotes
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“Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.”
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“Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.”
-- Ted KoppelSource : Ted Koppel's Commencement Address at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, www.crisismagazine.com. February 1, 1988.
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“It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.”
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“Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail  as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.”
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“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
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“A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.”
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“Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.”
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“Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.”
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“In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.”
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“You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.”
-- Ted Koppel#Degrees Quotes #Where You Are Quotes #Where You Are In Life Quotes
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“The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.”
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“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”
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“Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.”
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“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.”
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“There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.”
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“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”
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“My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.”
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“There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page”
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“There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common”
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“What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.”
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“To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.”
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“Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?”
-- Ted Koppel
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