Bob Edwards Quotes

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Bob Edwards

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 16, 1947

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

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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

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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.

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Good things just keep happening.

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

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I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

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If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

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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.

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Public radio has always been so powerless.

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I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

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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.

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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

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

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

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