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The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

~Bill Kurtis

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I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Answers Believe Big Big Questions Comment Else Everyone Everyone Else Guide Help Intelligent Just Like Looking People Questions Respect Them Through Times Tough Tough Times Young Young People I Believe I Believe That

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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

~Bill Kurtis

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Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Achieve Any Better Choose Cliche Going Hard Heard Know Life Like Long Over Reason Something Success Terrible Work You

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I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Been Come Documentaries Early Events Extreme Global Global Warming Producing Seen True Warming Warnings Weather Years

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First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Basically Being Big Built Chicago Cow Edge Everyone Feel First First Of All Friendly Good Just Kansas Midwestern Prairie Town Very

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All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Alone Appreciate Come Down Few Little Moments Other Out Relaxed Remember Remember When Taken Totally Vacations World You Your Yourself

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I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Call Cool Old People Reason Some Syndrome Think Tony Young Young People I Think

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I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

~Bill Kurtis

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You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

~Bill Kurtis

Topics: Before Beginning Borrow Couple Fast First In The Beginning Keep Know Lose Maybe Meet Money More Night Payroll Real Say Should Sleep Up Well Working Years You Your Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 21st, 1940

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