Bob Edwards quotes

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. (Bob Edwards)
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't. View quote
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. View quote
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The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. View quote
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything. View quote
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At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. View quote
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Public radio has always been so powerless. View quote
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. View quote
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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. View quote
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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it. View quote
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Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance. (Bob Edwards)
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again. View quote
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People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. View quote
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Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it. View quote
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. View quote
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Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. View quote
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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. View quote
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. View quote
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I've never been able to predict the future of anything. View quote
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I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. View quote
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. (Bob Edwards)
I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much. View quote
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In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. View quote
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I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. View quote
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It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract. View quote
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