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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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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.Charles Kuralt
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.Charles Kuralt
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Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.Charles Kuralt
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.Charles Kuralt
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Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.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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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.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 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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A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.Charles Kuralt
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.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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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