Ed Bradley quotes

Ed Bradley was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for CBS News' “60 Minutes.” Renowned for his insightful reporting and distinctive interviewing style, he broke racial barriers in broadcast journalism. He inspired generations of journalists and viewers with his integrity and dedication. Here are 57 of his quotes:

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

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

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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

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For nearly forty years, Ed Bradley dedicated his life to journalism and uncovered some of history's greatest stories. His legacy, his life's work, is a story for all of us to admire. Ed was a man of journalistic integrity, he not only set a high standard for his fellow journalists; he also helped to break down barriers in a field that traditionally has not reflected the true diversity of our Nation.

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All across America, thousands of est graduates, Forum participants, Erhard employees, and other faithful acolytes - not to mention countless others who may have remembered only vaguely the man with the strange-sounding name of Werner Erhard - watched as 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley related a dark story of Erhard's past.

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I think the evening news broadcasts are very different today than they were 25-years-ago. I think that the advent of 24-hour cable television. You don't have to wait for 6:30 or 7:00 to get the national news. You can turn on cable any time and you're going to get it right away. And I think that that 24-hour continuous news cycle has affected the way that news is covered. And I'm not sure that that's always a good thing. It can be, but it's not always a good thing.

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In addition to valuable contributions to journalism, Bradley's reporting also spurred social activism, but also spurred change with his reporting on AIDS in Africa, Death by Denial, which helped influence drug companies into discounting and donating AIDS drugs to Africa.

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Most of us know Ed Bradley from his 25 years of work on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, and his many interviews with world figures, celebrities and cultural icons. The men and the women who sat in the chair across from Bradley doing his 60 Minutes interviews were figures of importance, people to whom we should pay attention, and we could rely on Bradley to make sure that no skeleton in the darkest corner of his subject's closet was safe from the tenacious journalists.

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Before, when I was covering the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, we used to have what I call the three Ss. You would shoot a story, you would script a story, which is to write it and then ship the story. And if you were in Cambodia you'd go to the airport and try to find a pigeon to carry it out for you. Someone who was leaving Cambodia to go to either Bangkok or Saigon or Hong Kong because there wasn't the satellite technology. There was no uplinks then. Today, the second major change is also in personnel. Today you have so much satellite coverage you can report live why from a battlefield. Before you were often there just by yourself. Now you're likely to be with 20 other reporters. I just think there's more people out there covering the same story and covering it in a very different way because of the technological advances.

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Bradley joined CBS's 60 Minutes as coeditor in the 1981–1982 season. He also anchored and reported special broadcasts on 60 Minutes II. Bradley's first full-time work in television was as a war correspondent for CBS News during the Vietnam War. ... He has received numerous Emmy Awards for his work, one for a 1981 interview with Lena Horne.

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Ed Bradley was an African American journalist who was best known as a correspondent on CBS's 60 Minutes. In recent years, he became a broadcast icon on that Sunday evening television show.

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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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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.

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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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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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I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

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

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

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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

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

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