Dan Rather

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ↗

— Dan Rather

#listen #lone #lone ranger #overture #ranger

The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth ↗

— Dan Rather

#dreams

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art ↗

— Dan Rather

#art #crude #journalism #media #media-journalism

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ↗

— Dan Rather

#learn #lesson #life #tough #well

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. ↗

— Dan Rather

#block #provided #put #traffic #up

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cave #down #forces #gets #great

Only votes talk, everything else walks. ↗

— Dan Rather

#everything #only #talk #votes #walks

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. ↗

— Dan Rather

#journey #known #long #long journey #most

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. ↗

— Dan Rather

#been #i #never #proud #say

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ↗

— Dan Rather

#afraid #anyhow #being #being afraid #going