Ed Bradley Quotes

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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Ed Bradley
Mr. President, this is Ed Bradley in New York. There are many people who would question our system of criminal justice today in the United States—in fact, many people who have lost faith in our criminal justice system. With so many people languishing on death row today for so many years, how can you say with such assurance that justice will be certain, swift, and severe?

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I learned this from Mike Wallace. Listen, be a good listener. You don't have to fill space. Just sit there and listen.

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And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

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Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.

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Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

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I've always said when I die and if I do get to the pearly gates and St. Peter says, what have you done to deserve entry, I'd ask him if he'd saw my Lina Horn piece. It's always been a favorite of mine.

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I think the evening news broadcasts are very different today than they were 25-years-ago. I think that the advent of 24-hour cable television. You don't have to wait for 6:30 or 7:00 to get the national news. You can turn on cable any time and you're going to get it right away. And I think that that 24-hour continuous news cycle has affected the way that news is covered. And I'm not sure that that's always a good thing. It can be, but it's not always a good thing.

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Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was — she's a very — she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

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People know that they can tune in to "60 Minutes" any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.

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Since the 1970s some seven-hundred-thousand people have signed up for a self-improvement called 'est', or as it's now called 'The Forum.' Est was the brainchild of a former used-car salesman named Jack Rosenberg. Back in the sixties, Rosenberg deserted his wife and four children in Philadelphia, changed his name to Werner Hans Erhard, and moved to California where he started another family, and, came up with the idea for est.

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In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight.

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On broadcast journalism:
You can shine a light in a dark corner and make life better for people living there in the dark.

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