Quotes by Morley Safer

Morley Safer

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she’s a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Auntie

Gutters

Mind

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They’ve all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend’s products or whatever.

Done

Stories

Years

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it’s not that difficult, really.

Four

Vietnam

War

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Arrogance

Rooms

Use

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Land

Nuts

Safe Haven

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

Art

Mirrors

Radio

Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Europe

Rich

Wall

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we’re not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

Confidence

Ideas

Sleep

I am not in this business as a calling. I don’t do what I do to right any wrongs.

Calling

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

Three

Two

Years

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Cures

Doe

Don't Care

Done

Doubt

Enemy

Europe

Feet

Financial

Flaws

Fog

Food

Four

Garlic

Gutters

Hands

Ideas

Interesting

Interviews

Journalism

Kids

Killing

Land

Lifetime

Littles

Lying

Mind

Mirrors

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Numbers

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Quotes by Morley Safer

Morley Safer

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she’s a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They’ve all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend’s products or whatever.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it’s not that difficult, really.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we’re not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don’t do what I do to right any wrongs.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

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