All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repeating 'unconfirmed reports' as if they were news. But news without fact-checking is nothing more than glorified rumors.
David Emery
Related All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repea... DAVID EMERY The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be... JAMES RESTON That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. A... MELYSSA WINCHESTER The news is glorified gossip. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular s... ROLAND BARTHES Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is u... DOUG DUCEY Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to rest... CRAIG NEWMARK Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of... NEIL POSTMAN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young ar... KENNETH REXROTH When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are ... KENNETH REXROTH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Don't give it to Katie. Give it to a bunch of reporters and make CBS News the best news operation in... ANDY ROONEY If there was a change of heart in Washington and the focus became less on trade and more on human ri... BILL WHALEN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things... ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to... JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact? PAULA STOKES Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried. TOBA BETA To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I think that the English once more find themselves in the awkward situation, to put it mildly, of de... NIKOLAI KOVALYOV If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu... THOMAS SOWELL There's nothing, nothing from anyone. We still say 'No news is good news,' but hearing nothing is pr... ED LONEY When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON welcomes contributions from people who find themselves in the middle of news stories (but) would nev... BEN SHERWOOD Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. WALT WHITMAN You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Forever is composed of nows. EMILY DICKINSON We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our famili... MAYA ANGELOU These are the days that must happen to you. WALT WHITMAN Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ... JERRY SPINELLI If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e... SIMONE ELKELES The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape. JANET TURPIN MYERS The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. SHERALYN PRATT As you get to know what takes you away from life, you have more moments throughout your day where yo... MARY O'MALLEY They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enli... EOIN COLFER Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few ye... KURT GURLEY You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN It is the classic example of how people bought on rumors and sold on news. CELSO CENISE Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, re... MICHAEL JEFFERY Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is ... ZADIE SMITH As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news cove... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings... LESLIE JAMISON In former times when a big story broke, I would automatically want as many reporters out on the stor... MICHAEL WILLIAMS Our position is that our reporter will not testify to the district attorney or be interviewed by the... RALPH KATES In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT This should have happened in the 20th century, not the 21st century. But the fact that it did happen... CONNIE CHUNG Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY All the good news about economic reports has already been discounted in share prices. The market is ... KATSUNORI HIRAI Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christia... KEN HAM In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too... FRANK RICH If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would st... ALAN PALLER All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Not as many went in as we predicted. Kids are learning more in the schools. That's the good news. Th... BILL PADIA Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments. AMIT RAY I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re... GEN. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re... WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's... PETER MCWILLIAMS With most American newspapers in the throes of massive change, community news is more critical than ... CHRIS WADDLE The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is... BARRY RITHOLTZ Seize the day, then let it go. MARTY RUBIN Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ECKHART TOLLE
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Unless we get a full and complete explanation from the governor and we are assured that he has thoro... DAVID EMERY All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repea... DAVID EMERY Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and str... EMERY ALLEN Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. STEWART EMERY They played well at home and their goaltender had a good game. BOB EMERY What's good is that we still control our destiny in the conference. It's up to us to get the job don... BOB EMERY It will be good to have some time off. We played three games in five days and we have a few bumps an... BOB EMERY It was a frustrating game in a frustrating year. BOB EMERY We had a two-goal lead and they scored kind of a crappy goal. And, it gave them a lot of momentum. BOB EMERY We've got to preserve a two-goal lead. BOB EMERY We did a great job on the penalty kill and your goaltender is your best penalty killer. BOB EMERY We did a good job getting the puck to the net while skating 5-on-5. We also proved that we are a wel... BOB EMERY We were able to get some goal scoring tonight. We drove to the net well. BOB EMERY We were never able to get that all-important three-goal lead and knock the wind out of their sails. ... BOB EMERY You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your woun... EMERY ALLEN This kind of evaluation is in some ways a more objective way of measuring the body's response to pai... CHARLES EMERY I think the most important point of this preliminary study is that obese individuals may have a lowe... CHARLES EMERY Last summer we cut a check to Waterville for $4,000, ... We'll cut checks from the drug forfeiture a... JOHN EMERY No disrespect to anyone. I just didn't know where the flag was. RAY EMERY With the new rules, it's cool, I get a chance to look up and see if a guy is available for a stretch... RAY EMERY Starting out, you just want to make a good impression and play your best, RAY EMERY It's cool to say that you have an NHL record and it's something that I'll remember. RAY EMERY I think he was a little surprised the puck came right out to him. He had to take a step back before ... RAY EMERY This is important because if an obese person begins an exercise program, he may not cognitively expe... CHARLES EMERY The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain. CHARLES EMERY But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I'm ... EMERY LORD Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have me... EMERY LORD ... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and o... EMERY LEE I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re fr... EMERY ALLEN (Hume) had opportunities to close out the first set. But he stayed on task. It's not always too easy... DENNIS EMERY The interview is an intimate conversation between journalist and politician wherein the journalist s... EMERY KLEIN Exercise increases circulation and helps regulate the immune system and hormones that influence the ... CHARLES EMERY We did skate four lines and six defensemen and hopefully that will pay off for us tomorrow. BOB EMERY We came out tonight with a lot better emotion and played the body a lot better. BOB EMERY We had two breakaways and missed on both of them. They had one breakaway and scored. BOB EMERY Our findings show the importance of looking at objective as well as subjective measurements of how t... CHARLES EMERY Some studies say that obese people are more tolerant of pain, while other studies say they are less ... CHARLES EMERY For subjective indicators of pain, obese people indicated similar levels of pain to non-obese people... CHARLES EMERY The findings from both studies indicate that the effect of exercise we found in the current study tr... CHARLES EMERY This is the first time we've been able to document this kind of enhancement associated with exercise... CHARLES EMERY Summer crushes happen all the time, right? Because you feel far away from the real world, everything... EMERY LORD Imagination is essential to reality CHAD EMERY I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions li... EMERY LORD The relaxation procedure helped both groups cope with pain. Additionally, our tests showed both grou... CHARLES EMERY This baroque dichotomy between their sublime aspirations of judicial excellence and the ridiculous r... RICHARD EMERY The Oneida Nation remains strongly opposed to out-of-state tribal casinos. These out-of-state tribes... MARK EMERY Illinois is an excellent team with a chance to win the national championship. They simply overpowere... DENNIS EMERY It's really hard to sneak a win in against teams like Florida or Illinois because they are just real... DENNIS EMERY It's just hard for us playing a really solid team like an Illinois. DENNIS EMERY Florida is just a solid veteran team that was ranked No. 1 earlier this year. We dug ourselves a hol... DENNIS EMERY I am pleased with how the team fought back. DENNIS EMERY I'm always surprised at how close these matches are and how thin the winning and losing margin is. DENNIS EMERY I thought the team played really well. (But) I was really disappointed in our doubles play today. DENNIS EMERY I think they'll do it, or we'll flounder. DENNIS EMERY They (the Eagles) knew where I was going to be on the floor on every play. I couldn't get going. EMERY WALLACE It obviously wasn't my best game. EMERY WALLACE They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That w... EMERY WALLACE We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it. EMERY WALLACE It came down to hustle and heart for us. At halftime, I knew I had to come out and be a leader for u... EMERY WALLACE I'm just trying to be that senior leader. I've been here three years now. I know what it takes. Just... EMERY WALLACE I came out harder than ever. I told myself it's not going to happen again. I stayed focused on the g... EMERY WALLACE It's not the exact same date, but it's the same team, same Friday, same championship. EMERY WALLACE Five years ago, there probably wasn't a tech CEO worrying about patents. But, as these people [troll... EMERY SIMON Hundreds of patent infringement cases are pending against computer software and hardware manufacture... EMERY SIMON For us, the litigation issue is really a risk assessment issue, and the fact that an injunction is a... EMERY SIMON We think that you need to look at that bigger picture; we think you need to look at the full range o... EMERY SIMON There's nothing companies hate more than unpredictability. Injunctive relief poses a very disruptive... EMERY SIMON The support of our industry for this legislation should not be taken for granted. EMERY SIMON That's clearly an important thing for us. The Chinese government is a major customer of software. We... EMERY SIMON There is no question that the exploitation of works will increasingly be through the creation of dig... EMERY SIMON Heading into Turin our athletes are legitimate medals contenders for five to seven medals. That puts... EMERY HOLMIK The opening ceremonies are a tiring enough process. If you add all the demands of being flag-bearer ... EMERY HOLMIK There are also many extra demands placed on the flag-bearer that potentially take away from the prep... EMERY HOLMIK A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best perf... EMERY HOLMIK Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come int... EMERY ALLEN My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. Jonah Daniels... EMERY LORD He is selling out an exemplary Canadian citizen to appease their war on drugs. MARC EMERY [He also alleges that those people are now being sent letters by drug enforcement authorities in a s... MARC EMERY His intent is to stop the extradition and have me charged under Canadian law in a Canadian courtroom... MARC EMERY I'm disappointed that [the Marijuana Party] is, in fact, running candidates. Unfortunately, they're ... MARC EMERY I'd much rather be in front of a Canadian jury in a Canadian court. It'd probably still keep me out ... MARC EMERY a Nazi-like military organization. MARC EMERY in the business of putting the marijuana culture away in prisons for a long time. As the leader of t... MARC EMERY There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who... EMERY ALLEN People have seemed really excited. It was a great first day. KATHY EMERY I'm so pleased. I think things went really well. We were staffed to handle the rush. KATHY EMERY He was here when we got here. He said he wanted to be our first customer. KATHY EMERY We are expecting to be really busy, but we will have plenty of people here to take care of customers... KATHY EMERY We are ready. We are all in here now cleaning and getting everything set up. KATHY EMERY It's exciting. More importantly the team is doing well and hopefully I've done enough to stick aroun... RAY EMERY I know it's difficult to bare your heart, but it's the least stupid thing in the world. EMERY LORD It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were
in a boat of stone with masts of st... EMERY ALEXANDER STORRS I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be be... JULIE ANN EMERY Experience is confidence. DANIEL A EMERY My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... LARRY DAVID The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... DAVID HAREWOOD Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... DAVID CHALMERS Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. DAVID HARE The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... DAVID TENNANT It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... DAVID LETTERMAN Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... DAVID CRYSTAL I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity. DAVID BAILEY I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa... DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world. DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea... DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out... DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p... DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place. DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ... DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture. DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. DAVID BAILEY Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... DAVID BOWIE People use irony as a defense mechanism. DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ... DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d... DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea... DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go... DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation. DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex... DAVID BYRNE Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. DAVID BYRNE Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown... DAVID BYRNE Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle... DAVID BYRNE You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. DAVID BYRNE You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. DAVID BYRNE Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f... DAVID BYRNE Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. DAVID BYRNE I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. DAVID THEWLIS I've had an awful lot of good fortune. DAVID CASSIDY Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. DAVID CASSIDY What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s... DAVID CASSIDY There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't. DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself. DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft... DAVID CASSIDY I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo... DAVID CASSIDY Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i... DAVID CASSIDY When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne... DAVID CASSIDY Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is... DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career. DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing. DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ... DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ... DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ... DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '... DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series. DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we... DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig... DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ... DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis... DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for... DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did. DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general. DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi... DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl... DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol. DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone? DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream. DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo... DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i... DAVID CASSIDY I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ... DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ... DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und... DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. DAVID CASSIDY