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No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

- Morley Safer

Sweet, Teeth, Pastry, Chef

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

- Morley Safer

Woman, Very, Couple, Duke

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

- Morley Safer

Way, CEOs, Basis, Regular Basis

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

- Morley Safer

Country, Always, Which, Narrow

After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.

- Morley Safer

Goodbye, Been, Dozens, 60 Minutes

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

- Morley Safer

Culture, TV, Momentary, Popular Culture

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

- Morley Safer

Treat, Enemy, Always, Disarming

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

- Morley Safer

Still, Spencer Tracy, Widow, Interview

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

- Morley Safer

Think, Brilliant, I Think, Screw

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

- Morley Safer

Trust, Citizen, Would, Journalism

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

- Morley Safer

Idea, Vietnam, Had, Plea

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

- Morley Safer

Grow, Want, Grow Up, Motel

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

- Morley Safer

Been, Which, Bush, Cabinet

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

- Morley Safer

News, Audience, Distinction, Editors

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

- Morley Safer

Grit, Want, Some, Assume

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

- Morley Safer

Great, Know, Course, Flaws

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

- Morley Safer

Caring, Does, Considered, Compassionate

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

- Morley Safer

New, Never, Garlic, New York Times

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

- Morley Safer

Country, Certain Way, Nixon, Jerry

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

- Morley Safer

Feet, Desire, Would, No Desire

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.

- Morley Safer

Idea, About, Mike, Yawn

I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.

- Morley Safer

Natural, Like, Very, Uneasy

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

- Morley Safer

Kind, Through, Some, Suggested

Killing is the payoff of war.

- Morley Safer

War, Payoff

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

- Morley Safer

Nothing, Shows, Unreality

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.

- Morley Safer

Over, Stories, About, Chose

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

- Morley Safer

Rich, Clinton, Marc

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

- Morley Safer

Total, Guess, Almost, Tours

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

- Morley Safer

Know, Teachers, Valid, Views

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.

- Morley Safer

Work, War, Coverage, Weary

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