Ed Bradley

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#boy #covering #fun #had #i

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#god #i #knew #me #put

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#come #decision #i #job #made

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#half #i #sixth #taught #three

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#early #early age #go #homework #i

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cbs #cbs news #elements #how #i

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#clock #detroit #down #eastern #father

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#called #closer #even #father #hero

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#cronkite #desk #doing #growing #growing up

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. ↗

— Ed Bradley

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