A Quote by Harry Reasoner

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Harry Reasoner

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Harry Reasoner
American - Journalist
April 17, 1923 - August 6, 1990

This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.

Katherine Langford

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

Dwayne Johnson

I live vicariously through my songs.

Shaggy

You live vicariously through your characters.

Christopher Buckley

You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

Charlize Theron

This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

Christian Cooke

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

Victoria Justice

Drug dealers live vicariously through me

Drake

I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.

Richard DeVos

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

James Badge Dale

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

Bobcat Goldthwait

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

John Neihardt

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

Joan Cusack

I think any activity you have your kids in, you're all trying to live vicariously through them. And you're jealous of the kid that's naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.