Charles Kuralt Quotes

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

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I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

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I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

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I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

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