Ted Koppel Quotes

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• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

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  Believe, Odds, Overcoming

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• Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

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  Inspiring, Practice, Morality

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• Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.

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  Objectivity, Perspective, Political

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• Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

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  Motivational, Sight, Goal

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• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

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  Strong, Medicine, Our Society

  Ted Koppel's Commencement Address at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, www.crisismagazine.com. February 1, 1988.

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• It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

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  Scrapbooking, Nostalgia, Easy

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• There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

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  Fashion, Peace, Trends

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• Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it.

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  Christian, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

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  Inspirational, Important, Matter

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• You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

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  Degrees, Where You Are In Life, Where You Are

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• What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

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  Suggestions, Moses, Sinai

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• To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

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  Courage, Giving, Bravery

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• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

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  Anchorman, Kings, President

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• If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

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  Teamwork, Ignorance, Understanding

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• People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

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  Jobs, Media, People

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• There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

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  Special, Territory, Common

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• Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.

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  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

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  Jobs, Responsibility, Journalist

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• Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.

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  Fall, Nsa, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

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  Morning, Night, People

  "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

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• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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  History, Historical, Tourism

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• Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

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  Strong, Weapons, Terrorism

  "Michael McCaul, Barton Gellman, Ted Koppel, Claire McCaskill, Anu Bhagwati, Steve King, Bill Richardson, David Brooks, David Ignatius, Ana Navarro". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 11, 2013.

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• And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

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  Long, Terrorism, Threat

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

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  New York, Pages, Fields

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• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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  Npr, Years, Ideas

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