Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyeris an American television journalist. Previously, Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and closely associated with the president himself...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth22 December 1945
CityGlasgow, KY
CountryUnited States of America
My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.
The dream is not the destination but the journey.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.
Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.
Someone said to me... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'
I read this morning that he's [Saddam Hussein] also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.
I think no one knows my politics.
The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.