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I think no one knows my politics.
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
Great questions make great reporting.
I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.
A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
Don't let other people tell you who you are.
The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer
The dream is not the destination but the journey.
... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.
If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.
I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.
I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.
My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Ive always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.
I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.
It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.
I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'
Someone said to me... ‘A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don’t you just make the request? Why don’t you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?’
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.