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It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Damage
Easier
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I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
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Bird
Fetish
Records
Tweety Bird
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You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.
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Guarantee
Televised
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I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
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Bigs
Knows
Populist
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Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?
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Movie Star
Opinion
Stars
Who Cares
Cares
Informed
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Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.
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Belief
Firm
Moving
People
Beliefs
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I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.
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Party
People
Political
Political People Will
Member
Political Party
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If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.
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Excited
Mistake
Cancel
Interview
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The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire without a net.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Wire
Greatest Thing
High Wire
Net
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I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
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Election
Party
Vote
General
General Election
Member
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It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Agree
Agreement
Nice
Writing
Authoritative
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
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Invited
Letterman
Appear
Funny Your Me
Videotape
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I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.
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Masquerade
Unbiased
Totally
Thinking Me People
Objective
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More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Opportunity
Dumb
Stupid
Thinking
Uninformed
Anything Else
More Than Anything
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From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Entirety
Folks
House Of Representatives
Representatives
Senate
Cover
Event
Promised
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We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.
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Anywhere Else
Literally
Tune
Voices
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My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Approach
Intellectual
Naive
Simple
Sound
Questions
Basic
Interviewing
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I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Air
Comedy
Hbo
Seems
Swearing
Unfortunate
Cheap
Prude
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I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
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Technology
America
Choices
Good People
Organization
Thinking
Survive
Voices
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My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
Brian Lamb / Journalist
Easier
Goal
Interesting
Numbers
Ready
Desperately
Student
My Number One
Proved
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I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.
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Air
Hbo
Matter
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We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.
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Impact
Parent
Reading
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