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“I love lamp.”

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Author:Brick Tamland

“As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“I really think more about being honest and truthful about feelings and how people behave for the movies that I direct, but I also love movies like Zohan and Anchorman, just balls to the wall, how much can you make people laugh in one 90 minute period.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 - "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course."”

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Author:Keith Olbermann

“A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.”

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Author:Tom Brokaw

“The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.”

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Author:Lance Morrow

“I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.”

“I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.”

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Author:John Oliver

“I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“Because I went from the Daily Show where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show to Bruce Almighty where I played a news guy to Anchorman where I played a news guy, now I'm...yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.”

Author:Dan Rather

“I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.”

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Author:Tom Brokaw

“I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again.”

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Author:David Koechner

“Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.”

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Author:Eva Mendes

“Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.”

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“I am a very, very avid 'Anchorman' fan.”

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Author:Zoey Deutch

“When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.”

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

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Author:Ted Koppel

“I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.”

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Author:Anderson Cooper

“I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?”

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Author:Kathryn Hahn