Quotes by Mike Wallace - Page 1

You want to put a man at ease.
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Ease
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All I'm armed with is research.
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Research
Armed
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I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.
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Fulfilled
Revealed
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Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
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Seconds
Hang
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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
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Mom
Motherhood
Mothers Day
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I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.
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Worry
Cared
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Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
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Retired
Altogether
Something Else
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I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
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Asked
Roosevelt
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A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.
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Motivational
Laughing
Tape
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Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.
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Trusted
Cronkite
Deserved
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The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.
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Growing
Religion Of Islam
World
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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
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Battle
Urgency
Battles
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If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
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Credibility
Important
Integrity
Anything
Reporter
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Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
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Neighborhood
Attended
Jack
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When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
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Michigan
Radio
University
Announcer
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I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.
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Anchor
Defied
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I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.
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Fairly
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There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.
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Journalism
Better Job
Seriously
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When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
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Cbs
Cbs News
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It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
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Jobs
Astonishing
Feels
Joy
Way
Reporter
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We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.
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Asked
Confrontational
First People
Investigative
Occasionally
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Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.
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Fiddle
Overachiever
Yeah
Pretty Good
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I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.
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Acting
Game Shows
Games
Talk Shows
Years
Commercials
Interview
Million Years
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I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'
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Good Night
Good Luck
Legends
Luck
News
Years
Good Me Night
Cbs
Cbs News
Legend
Simply
Spoken
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Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.
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Balanced
Country
Foxes
Patriot
People
Best Your People
Reporter
Fair
Fox
Fully
Best Country People
Liberal
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We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear.
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Swear
Stick
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I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.
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Wire
Commercial
Commercials
Reporter
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I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.
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Ashamed
Hopeless
Acknowledging
Depressed
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I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.
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People Talk Try
Reporter
Phone
Forth
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To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.
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Air
Discovery
Enough Time
Time Enough World
Voyage
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I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.
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Caught
Doubt
Drama
No Doubt
Plague
Million Years
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You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.
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Depression
Bed
Minutes
No Idea
Collapsed
Experiencing
Finally
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I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.
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Bunch
Exit
Fine
Pills
Wake Up
Low
Sleeping
Wake
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In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
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Discovering
Honorable
Reporters
Best World Way
Reputations
Underneath
Worlds
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I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.
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Acne
Growing Up
Imagine
Insecure
Legs
Serious
Skinny
Bow
Fella
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The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.
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Heat
Began
Caricature
Reveal
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There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
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Depression
Ashamed
Licking
Path
Safe
Chances
Onto
Repeat
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I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?
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Decided
Time Work Me
Depressed
Work Time Me
Fellow
Quit
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I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
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Fixed
Getting Old
Smoking
Aid
Today Me See
Pacemaker
Properly
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Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever.
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People Way Know
People Anything Way
Believes
Stick
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As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
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Birthday
Smile
Approach
Ears
Eye
Long
Apparent
Flights
Prospect
Search
Wherever
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In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.
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Candid
Determined
Program
Showcase
Beat
Broadcast
Combative
Introduced
Jump
Local
Maintain
Proved
Ted
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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.
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Covering
Debut
Fulfilling
September
Triumphant
Assignment
Began
Cbs
Cbs News
Correspondent
Reporter
Richard
Nixon
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But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse.
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Gray
Sick
Sunny
Worse
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Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
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Elementary School
Moved
Neighborhood
Attended
Time Age Better
Crossed
Elementary
Gotten
Jack
Paths
Same Age
Seldom
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I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
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Assistants
Leader
Prepared
Producers
World Leader
World Me People
Always Done World
Criminal
Important People
Interview
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What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?
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Letters
Phone
Fellow
Interview
Sent
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My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
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Boston
Franklin
Massachusetts
Russia
Backside
Meant
Roosevelt
Suddenly
Wound
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Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
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Boston
Rose
Russia
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