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Bob Edwards, born on May 16, 1947, is an accomplished journalist with over four decades in the news industry. Known for his in-depth investigative reporting and unique interviewing style, he has made significant contributions to the field of journalism.

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Famous Bob Edwards Quotes

“People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.”

People Men Ability Ready

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“Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.”

Long Earth Long Time Meek

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“One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.”

Hate Trouble Efficient Hate You

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“I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.”

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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.”

Humans Human Beings Slavery Impressive Artifacts Genealogy

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“Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.”

Ifs Looks Care Ties Wardrobe Nobody Cares

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“Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.”

World Children Parent Sin Quality Disease Our Children Burden Heavy Carrie Entering Heavy Burdens

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“The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.”

Helping Friendship Differences Acquaintance Advise

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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.”

Ifs Littles Different Helping Perfect Madness Different Things Listeners Spoken Word Broadcasters Little Help

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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.”

Seems Brain Madness Mediums

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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.”

Book Reading Reading Books

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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.”

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“With radio, the listener absorbs everything.”

Radio Listeners

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“Public radio has always been so powerless.”

Radio Powerless Public Radio

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“I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.”

Kind Guy News Conservative

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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.”

Thinking Please Organization Dry Going Away Listeners Dry Up

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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.”

Grew Grew Up Rivers Tiny Stations Beginners Indiana Kentucky Albany Louisville

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“I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.”

Home Bed Get Up Noon

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“I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.”

Used Grandmother Opera My Grandmother Soap Soap Operas

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“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.”

Stills Enjoy Talking Elements Excited Listeners Microphones

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“I've never been able to predict the future of anything.”

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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.”

World Rights Movement College Ambition News Radio Focused Civil Rights Antiwar Civil Rights Movement

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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.”

Problem Issues Events Figures News Radio Interviews Tails Urgency Prominent

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“The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.”

Crazy Radio Pals

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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.”

Persons Hours Work Out Not Sure Interviews Tape Going To Work

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“If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?”

Ifs Jobs Left White Crime Color Blue Leaving Collars Blue Collar White Collar Outsourced

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“When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”

Said Problem Funny Automobile Parking Solomon

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Born: May 16, 1947
Known for: Journalist
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