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25 quotes by Sam Donaldson

Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson, Jr. (born March 11, 1934) is an American reporter and news anchor, serving with ABC News from 1967 to the present. He is best known as the network's White House Correspondent (1977–89 and 1998–99) and as a panelist and later co-anchor of the network's Sunday program, This Week.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't... →

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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you.... →

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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the... →

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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more... →

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But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a... →

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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make... →

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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in... →

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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

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It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

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