Robert Krulwich Quotes

#1. When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Robert Krulwich

#2. Journalism doesn't have to be your first love ... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going ... it helps if you love it.

Robert Krulwich

#3. When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Robert Krulwich

#4. I am fascinated by storytelling glue. Anytime I see someone who's good at it, I stop and wonder, 'How'd they 'do this? Why can't I tear myself away?

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#5. Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

Lyle Lovett

#6. Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.

Robert Krulwich

#7. Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

Robert Krulwich

#8. So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

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#9. There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.

Colleen Helme

#10. A seed, after all, is an embryo, a potential plant waiting for its moment to grow. It has what it needs to begin. But it can also put itself on pause. It can wait.

Robert Krulwich

#11. Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

Michael Greger

#12. I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

William T. Vollmann

#13. News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

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#14. The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

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#15. The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

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#17. There are some people who don't wait.

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#18. Be genuine. Just be yourself.

Jamie Eason

#19. One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

Julie Burchill

#20. When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

Robert Krulwich

#21. A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

Robert Krulwich

#22. If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

Robert Krulwich

#23. If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.

Robert Krulwich

#24. Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#25. The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Robert Krulwich

#26. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich