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Edward R. Murrow

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‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
EDWARD R. MURROW To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde...
GARY F EVANS... Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II [The] See It Now ... See It Now.
EDWARD R. MURROW When I see something, I go for it.
JACKEE HARRY Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward ...
DON LEMON I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie P...
AL MADRIGAL What if you couldn't bank on a future...what would you do now? Things can change in the blink of an ...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Now we're starting to see artists like R. Kelly work with Looney Tunes on his recent album, and we'l...
SEAN ROSS Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating ...
MARK LEIBOVICH Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It looks pretty good now, but I didn't see it before.
JACK CLARKE In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF Now they (the public) can see it. It's too bad that it took tragedies - but now they understand that...
EVA PICKENS If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
IM DONG-HYUN To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.
LEIGH BARDUGO You should have seen this coming,’ they said. I did see it coming. I saw it coming the way you see...
MARGARET ANDREWS Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
PHILIP T. M. We'll see how I feel tomorrow. Right now it hurts - bad.
MATT MANTEI If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be pub...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles...
LISA SEE We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. P...
LISA SEE May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do:...
LISA SEE Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your ent...
LISA SEE Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible ...
CAROLYN SEE Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up...
LISA SEE I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointe...
LISA SEE Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African...
CAROLYN SEE 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England fami...
CAROLYN SEE If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to kno...
CAROLYN SEE I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were hu...
LISA SEE Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. T...
LISA SEE What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, co...
CAROLYN SEE When I read his book Dark Clouds at Dawn I thought that, my goodness, this is probably the only ex-d...
MARTYN SEE كلُّ من يقولُ إن النساء لا يتمتعن بنفوذ على قرارات أزوا...
LISA SEE Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
LISA SEE Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
LISA SEE You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
CAROLYN SEE I write a thousand words a day.
LISA SEE Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is sh...
LISA SEE I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that...
LISA SEE There was a typhoon the day you were born... It is said that a Dragon born in a storm will have a pa...
LISA SEE We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said ...
LISA SEE We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daugh...
LISA SEE Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, obl...
LISA SEE It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distan...
LISA SEE When you're held underwater, you think only of air.
LISA SEE I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will rema...
LISA SEE Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what ...
LISA SEE Her heart was like a great road with room for everyone.
LISA SEE But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low ...
LISA SEE Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like...
LISA SEE A dragon doesn't surrender. A dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels m...
LISA SEE As I speak, I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come o...
LISA SEE It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to ...
LISA SEE People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, o...
LISA SEE When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your hou...
LISA SEE Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
LISA SEE I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything di...
LISA SEE What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be ...
LISA SEE i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
LISA SEE When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
LISA SEE So often, we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happe...
LISA SEE We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat &...
LISA SEE Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
LISA SEE The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"

A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interest...
CAROLYN SEE 'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore...
CAROLYN SEE I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'
CAROLYN SEE I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I h...
CAROLYN SEE Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on...
CAROLYN SEE I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
CAROLYN SEE I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of L...
CAROLYN SEE Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Mr grandfather would turn in his grave if he could see it now.
CHARLES READ But it took a Murrow, because Murrow had an audience unlike any of these other guys.
GRANT HESLOV The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.
GLENN DANZIG As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
BILLY BRAGG I felt it. It stung a little bit, but I'm fine now, really. I don't see it swelling.
MARK GRUDZIELANEK If you would have seen it before and to see it now - it looks like a war zone.
MICHAEL HAMMER That movie is huge in Kentucky right now. I have to go see it.
DWANE CASEY I already stretched it two weeks ago and now I just stretched it again. It's the inside ligament. It...
ALES VALENTA It was really on fire by now, and those guys just left me in the car burning. We can laugh about it ...
GARY GRAY Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI It's a shame to see what you see now. I guess they call it progress. I'm not sure, but I have to go ...
HOWIE LOCKE It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
YITZHAK RABIN We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
TERRY PRATCHETT Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as h...
ADRIAN MCKINTY Investors want to see profitability now. Not two years from now.
JEFFREY SILBER Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA We can go online and see the wind direction and see when ash is going to fall. Before, it just happe...
VINCE EVANS He's in better shape now. I think everyone was surprised to see him dunk it.
JAMES ROWE Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
ANNA SEWELL Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see i...
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R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German.
R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru...
R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY