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Charles Kuralt

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  • “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father’s hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • “It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.” -Charles Kuralt

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  • I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. – Charles Kuralt

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