I know there’s a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do. I’m fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.
I think sometimes people project things on you, but I’m trying to handle everything that’s happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can’t necessarily win all the time.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices – and then there’s the one you pick, commit to, and make great – is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.
You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.
I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn’t good, nobody said, ‘Come here, baby, we’re going to make you a star.’ Early on, when I’d say, ‘Can I do some anchoring?’ people would look at me like I was crazy.
What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.
And I’ve always – the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you’re too busy worrying about the competition, you don’t focus enough on what you’re doing.
Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.
When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.
The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who’s piloting the plane.
Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.
Can you explain what Internet is?
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating.
A less-than dream job can help you find your dreams.
The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.
I knew I had to be a journalist because I’m deeply curious about the world.
Now, if they’re there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn’t germane, or isn’t an important part of it, that’s something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.
I think it’s dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you’re not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn’t eat his pie.