Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CMwas a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth29 July 1938
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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No. I write down thoughts as they occur to me. You never know when you're going to need a good idea.
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It's sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm 20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end.
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It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,
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When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that, of that scope, what extraordinary changes there have been.
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Almost 10 million Americans are living with cancer. I am sure I will learn from them how to cope with the facts of life that none of us anticipated,
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic 'Take the Train' eh?
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I think audiences, in times of trouble and good times, look for people on television who are basic, don't have airs, don't hype themselves.
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I would think he would have wanted to be known for more than just that.
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Hundreds of you have been like family. It feels good to have such a family right now.
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because he kept a childlike sense of awe about the world.
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I'm deeply offended by how little Americans know about their country.
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I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
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I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.
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I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.