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15 quotes by Robert MacNeil

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC (born January 19, 1931), also known as Robin MacNeil, is a Canadian American novelist, and former television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.
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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two... →

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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

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After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and... →

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Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

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I never wanted to be a pundit.

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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

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The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

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And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

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But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other... →

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Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That... →

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