Linda Ellerbee Quotes - Page 2

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

The new national campfire - radio.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.