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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

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There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 11th, 1934

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