Linda Ellerbee Quotes
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When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.
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The best time to laugh is anytime you can.
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I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.
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Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.
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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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Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.
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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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Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.
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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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There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.
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I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.
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Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.
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Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.
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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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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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Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
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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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The new national campfire - radio.
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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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Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.
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I think laughter may be a form of courage.
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We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.
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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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Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.
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The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.
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'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?
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if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.
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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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Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.
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