Ed Bradley Quotes

• There was no one around me who didn’t work hard.

  Ed Bradley

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• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  Ed Bradley

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in New York

• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

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  Tags in Achieve, Matter

• The only thing I’d ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

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  Tags in Microphone, Copy

• I’d watch my father get up at 5 o’clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

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  Tags in Machine, Market

• That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

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  Tags in Blew, Standing

• So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I’d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

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  Tags in Station, Phone

• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

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  Tags in Fun, Story

• You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that’s what it comes back to.

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  Tags in Sharpen, Talent

• The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

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  Tags in Rent, Roof

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

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  Tags in Meaningful, Relationships

• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

  Ed Bradley

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  Tags in Radio, Earth

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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  Tags in Sixth, Taught

• And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

  Ed Bradley

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Worked, Harder

• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

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  Tags in Prepared, Harder

• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

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  Tags in Stayed, Paris

• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  Ed Bradley

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  Tags in Cronkite, Growing

• I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that’s something I learned at an early age.

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  Tags in Homework, Unprepared

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that’s who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  Ed Bradley

  Tags in Sounded, Patterned

• My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Called, Lewis

Ed Bradley (28)

Birth:	22nd June, 1941
Death:	9th November, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Ed Bradley was an American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television program 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, CBS Sunday Night with Ed Bradley. He received several awards for his work including the Peabody, the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award, and 19 Emmy Awards.

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