Charles Kuralt Quotes on work

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

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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... view

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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... view

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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society... view

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I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air... view

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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me... view

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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens... view

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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father... view

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