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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#change #into #know #later #leap

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#answer #asked #fireman #going #grow

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#being #having #i #imagined #just

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#across #anything #coast #country #highway

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#any #baseball #book #books #changed

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#body #computer #devices #human #human body

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#air #critics #did #hate #i

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#band #borrow #boy #card #father

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#covering #happen #hard #i #important