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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.

~Charles Kuralt

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I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

~Charles Kuralt

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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.

~Charles Kuralt

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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.

~Charles Kuralt

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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.

~Charles Kuralt

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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

~Charles Kuralt

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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.

~Charles Kuralt

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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

~Charles Kuralt

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I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

~Charles Kuralt

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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 10th, 1934

Died: July 4th, 1997

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