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Morley Safer [1931-0] Canadian

Rank: 102
Journalist, Broadcaster

Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television.

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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.		101
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.	Travel	102
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.		103
I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.		104
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.		105
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?		106
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.		107
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.		108
Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.		109
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.		110
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.		111
We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.		112
Killing is the payoff of war.		113
Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.		114
A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.		115
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.		116
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.		117
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.		118
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.		119
Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.		120
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.		121
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.		122
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.		123
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.		124
The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.		125
The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.		126
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.		201
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.		202
I don't see myself as a Luddite.		203
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.		204
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.		205
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.		206
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.		207
I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.		208
I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?		209
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.		210
After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.		211
If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.		212
I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.		213
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.		214
When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'		215

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