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Bill Moyers Quotes

«Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.»
«Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.»
Author: Bill Moyers | Keywords: depend on, ethics, Strangers
«As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.»
Author: Bill Moyers | Keywords: student, teachers
«Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.»
«There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.»
«When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.»
Author: Bill Moyers | About: Feelings, Learning | Keywords: at home, comfortable, home in
«A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? I consider myself a fortunate man to have a forum for my curiosity.»
«Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization . . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.»
«I own and operate a ferocious ego.»
Author: Bill Moyers | About: Egotism | Keywords: ferocious, operate
«The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone.»
Author: Bill Moyers | Keywords: conveys, existential, printed

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