7 Quotes & Sayings By Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke was born on November 25, 1903, in Cambridge, England. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Cooke was a journalist and broadcaster in England, North America and Africa before becoming a broadcaster for CBS News in the United States in the 1950s. He hosted The American Scene for television between 1955 and 1961 Read more

From 1964 he gave live television lectures on the BBC and in 1965 he became the first person to be made an Honorary Fellow of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He died on December 10, 2004.

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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence. Alistair Cooke
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Every sport pretends to be literature.. . Alistair Cooke
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. Alistair Cooke
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper. Alistair Cooke
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. Alistair Cooke
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. Alistair Cooke