HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
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Related i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for televis... JUNE ALLYSON The Christian right is very powerful in Ohio, powerful in its hypocrisy and its rhetoric and, sadly,... CHRIS REDFERN A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the... TERRY WOGAN Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an env... EVAN SPIEGEL Our curriculum has become much more cafeteria-like. In classical times, education was regarded as ge... MARSHA WATSON I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engine... DONNA NELSON You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to kn... TOM ROBBINS Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i... MEL BROOKS people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don... CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to approp... CHRISTOPHER LASCH Did you want IBM to lower their rhetoric on Java? DAVID BOIES But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ... KARL ROVE They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they... IKE TURNER If it is rhetoric, it is to balance the perception that that they are responsible for the high price... ANTOINE HALFF If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Mo... TOM FORD He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to b... MITCH ALBOM Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it... STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a stran... CARLA GUGINO Their rhetoric does not match the reality of what they have done. JOHN EDWARDS We have to look at any and all sources of bringing teachers in. Teach For America has had a lot of s... GERALD OKAMOTO There isn't much reason why the ECB won't hike further. We don't think its time to buy because they ... ARUP GHOSH The political rhetoric has taken its toll. ASHISH THADHANI Goodwill is something you put away like preserves, for a rainy day, for winter, for lean times, and ... REBECCA SOLNIT Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominan... JOHN RALSTON SAUL You can tell (he's upset) when he gets that look in his eyes. When you see that look, you know. But ... CONNER HOLM Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT There was a time in the 80s when they were all saying that they [blockbusters] couldn't happen anymo... JOHN LEIGHTON the one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel... VERONICA WEBB Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being tu... JOAN D. VINGE You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha... KARL ROVE They teach you everything you need to know about fibers and fabrics. There is more to it than just r... JASON WINDHAM I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on '... RANDEE HELLER They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l... JAMES JONES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ... JULIAN BAGGINI Its only when you Clean your doorstep that you have the right to criticize your friends for not visi... LINUS GITARI In ancient times, being faithless is better than being unfaithful. But for today and tomorrow; they'... KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like... CAROL CHANNING America has lost its capacity for being indignant, ... Where has our capacity for indignation gone? ... CHERIF BASSIOUNI It's not a philosophy. It's religion. There are no television ads for our product during those hours... RUTH GARREN When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took... DICK VAN DYKE Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, s... BYRON WHITE Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, s... BYRON R. WHITE Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitc... SARAH WATERS Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit... RAJA They only learned it when it ran on television. Then they said to me, you can get prisoners released... JUERGEN CHROBOG Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind... C.S. LEWIS He is at his best when he is trying to bring people together, like he did last year. But that rhetor... FABIAN NUNEZ Rhetoric is good for the politician, but even he comes to the point when he must take responsibility... DR. A'YANNA WEBSTER An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able t... WILLIAM FEATHER Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, bu... ALI IBN ABI TALIB Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was t... IAIN M. BANKS This is not rhetoric. This is for real. PETER BERGEN Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in... WINONA RYDER In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics. MEGYN KELLY Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL It was really the only school in the country that offered [rhetoric] as a major. It was absolutely f... HILARY KISKADDON I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER If you want action on climate change and not spin and rhetoric only the Greens can deliver. CAROLINE LUCAS I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get ... C. JOYBELL C. I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it." JAMES JONES The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't wan... MITCH HEDBERG “Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe... JOANNA AJ I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, y... MARK RUFFALO What one looks for is evidence, not rhetoric. SAMINA AHMED Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. PLATO They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui... ARUNDHATI ROY The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best. ROBERT IGER In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were lo... J. AUGUST RICHARDS We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music i... JOHN MILTON CAGE It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there ... ROMAN PAYNE [He also lumped Kerry in with another Democratic contender, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, cha... HOWARD DEAN If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right fo... MANDY HALE Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri... ZHUANGZI There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, ... BILL KELLER It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the electi... JOHN HANCOCK (CONSULTANT) its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow... JOHN GREEN He's not a typical Storm Cat in that he has a great mind. You wouldn't know that he was in the barn ... ELLIOTT WALDEN You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it, KALEY CUOCO To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying h... PRIMO LEVI The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When pe... CHARLES EAMES There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not... ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But pe... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the... BARBARA KRUGER The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being... MANIKA Love is a word that is used to loosely now if people knew what love was they would respect the word ... GARY F EVANS... Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit b... 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His mouth, but out there flew a trope. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo... FAAMIN Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its ... GREG GRANDIN When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that k... PAUL BOWLES The paintings and the chamber really takes you on a journey of discovery. You see not only the beaut... JOANEATH SPICER Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn... ABU BAKAR BASHIR You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't... MITCH HEDBERG
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