Larry King quotes:

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  • I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

  • The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!

  • Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  • I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.

  • Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  • I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  • Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  • You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  • I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

  • I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

  • You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

  • I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

  • It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

  • I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

  • If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  • I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

  • I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

  • I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

  • The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  • I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

  • People would pay money to work at CNN

  • People would pay money to work at CNN.

  • When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

  • Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

  • I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

  • Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  • I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  • Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

  • You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

  • My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  • I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  • I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  • I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  • I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.

  • Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  • An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.

  • Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  • I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

  • Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

  • ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  • Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  • Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

  • I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  • i never learned anything while i was talking.

  • I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

  • I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.

  • If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

  • If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

  • If you do something, expect consequences

  • I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun

  • Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

  • Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

  • My biggest fear is death, because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief ... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

  • Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  • One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

  • The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

  • The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

  • There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

  • There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

  • There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

  • We met in an airport in Las Vegas, Harrison Ford and I, and he said, "I just finished a movie called 42. I play Branch Rickey. There's this kid in it playing Jackie Robinson. I think it's a pretty good movie."

  • When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

  • You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

  • I've done radio interviews about this movie [42]. I feel I'm a part of this movie, since I knew Jackie Robinson. I was at his first game.

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