Sam Donaldson's Profile
Brief about Sam Donaldson: By info that we know Sam Donaldson was born at 1934-03-11. And also Sam Donaldson is American Journalist.
Some Sam Donaldson's quotes. Goto "Sam Donaldson's quotation" section for more.And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
Tags: School, Society, WinnersAnd really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.
Tags: Education, Success, TodayAs I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
Tags: College, Step, TelevisionBut I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
Tags: Confidence, Else, YourselfBut my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
Tags: Business, Give, NewsIf you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
Tags: Again, Happen, OvercomeIt was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
Tags: Everybody, Exciting, RadioMy mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Tags: Age, Mother, SchoolNews conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
Tags: American, Chance, MindThere was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
Tags: Bit, HamWell, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Tags: Born, Family, TexasAnd on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Tags: Night, Thought, UntilBut as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
Tags: Thought, Wanted, YoungBut in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
Tags: Age, Time, WarI can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
Tags: Happen, Makes, TellI didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.
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