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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

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My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. Bill Kurtis

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We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue. Bill Kurtis

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'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking. Bill Kurtis

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With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks. Bill Kurtis

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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

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That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor. Bill Kurtis

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I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us. Bill Kurtis

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I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch. Bill Kurtis

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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

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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't. Bill Moyers

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When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain. Bill Moyers

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Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious. Bill Moyers

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They advertise on the radio for food stamps! Bill O'Reilly

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Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality. Bill O'Reilly

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Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it. Bill O'Reilly

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If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again. Bill O'Reilly

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Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that. Bill O'Reilly

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Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered. Bill O'Reilly

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Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy. Bill O'Reilly

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My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. Bill O'Reilly

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This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded. Bill O'Reilly

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