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“Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.”

Quote by Linda Ellerbee

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Linda Ellerbee is an American journalist renowned for her contributions to children's news. Born on August 15, 1944, she has held various positions as a news show host throughout her career, dedicated to providing children with entertaining and educational news content. more

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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.”

“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.”

Source: And so it goes

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

Firsts Said Law Heard Prejudice Journalism

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

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

Mean Race Okay Speed Rats Rat Race

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

Ifs Want Age Old Age Mellow Yiddish

Book:Move On

Source: Move On

“Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.”

Movement Revolution Polite

Book:Move On

Source: Move On

“The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.”

Ifs Looks Long Whole Left Mistake Rain Towns Left Out

Book:Move on: adventures in the real world

Source: Move on: adventures in the real world

“I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.”

People Trying Two Stories Regard Raised Storytelling

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“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.”

Doe Audience Television Products News Program Consumers Advertisers

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.”

Ifs May Real Easy Forget Goes On Consequence Affection Gentle Absurdity

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes