Linda Ellerbee
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Biography
Linda Ellerbee is an American journalist, anchor, producer, reporter, author, speaker and commentator, noted as longtime Washington correspondent for NBC News and host of NBC News Overnight. She is widely known as the twenty-five year host of Nick News, Nickelodeon's highly rated and recognized news program for older school-aged children and teens that addressed substantive issues, including wars, disease and disasters, without condescension.
"If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."
"Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't."
"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."
"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities."
"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
"I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties."
"I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."
"[My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since."
"In the coldest February as in every other month in every other year the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other."