Quotes by Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Inspirational

Motivational

Positive

As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Intelligent

Land

Moon

Hatred is never anything but fear – if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

Hate

Hatred

Ifs

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Ends

Numbers

World

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.

Air

Missing

Oxygen

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

Gun

People

Wind

I’ve always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Dirty

Men

Want

If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

America

Farewell

Opportunity

Life begins when you do.

Carpe

Carpe Diem

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Century

Mediums

Television

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Air

America

Beach

Boat

Carpe

Carpe Diem

Century

Country

Dirty

Ends

Farewell

Fate

Freedom

Gun

Hate

Hatred

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Intelligent

Introspection

Land

Mature

Mediums

Men

Missing

Moon

Motivational

Numbers

Opportunity

Oxygen

Party

People

Positive

Priceless

Research

Responsibility

Spring

Stars

Teamwork

Television

Want

Wind

World

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Quotes by Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Hatred is never anything but fear – if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

I’ve always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Life begins when you do.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

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