Linda Ellerbee Quotes

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• Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Kids, Media, Differences

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• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Confidence, Believe

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• If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Change, Believe, Risk

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• We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Writing, Rights, Years

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• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

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  Relationship, Thinking Of You, Money

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• A good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Laughter, Laughing, Good Times

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

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  Swim, Streams, Fishes

  Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

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• Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mean, Race, Rats

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• I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Reality

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

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  Inspirational, Two, Type

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• Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

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• Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, People, Gossip

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Men, World, Want

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Sports, Accomplishment, News

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Law, Prejudice, Firsts

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Age, Want, Mellow

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• [My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

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  Friendship, Father, Thinking

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

  Linda Ellerbee

  Dog, Yelling, Play

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• in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Doe, News, Television

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The best time to laugh is anytime you can.

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  Laughing, Best Times

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• Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

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  Music, Mistake, Believe

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Choices, Abortion, World

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