The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
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Related We're delighted by the third season pickup of WILDFIRE, which we see as one of the staples of our pr... KEVIN BEGGS I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. CHRIS WALLACE . . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to b... KURT VONNEGUT We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ... JERRY WAINWRIGHT Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase... JOSEPH BARBERA Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values. CHELSEA MANNING There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains ... HENRY FAIRLIE The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialisti... 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MICHAEL RANERI The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate,... JEREMY IRONS People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because ... DANA PLATO [In an era when the supply of films - on DVD, video-on-demand and digital downloading - is exploding... MICHAEL NATHANSON I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source fo... TED SARANDOS This is huge. It's one hour of free publicity on national television, in prime-time. DONNA BROWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically... MARK SKOUSEN God, yes. God, yes, because it's fascinating and a lot of the time you are saying I can't believe th... CHRIS TARRANT From our perspective, the focus right now needs to be on bargaining. Anything that's not related to ... JASON MACDONALD There's a presupposition that we start shows out on the Web and then migrate them to prime time or c... DAVID NEUMAN There's a presupposition that we start shows out on the Web and then migrate them to prime time or c... DAVID NEUMAN Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor,... MICHAEL MULLEN I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's wha... IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes th... A. J. BOWEN Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are u... ALBERT EINSTEIN Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude... MICHAEL MEDVED There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audie... FRED SILVERMAN The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it i... CARL SANDBURG Networks are branding their programming through mobile content and providing an audible and visual e... LAUREN ZALAZNICK I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subje... PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM Our prime time is the inverse of prime time on TV. Our biggest time will be this Thursday and Friday... ALEX RIETHMILLER I absolutely think this deal is putting us right there with the Big Four. People are going to talk a... JOE YOUNG We're trying to prove to him that there's an awful lot of people behind this. They kind of took the ... LLOYD BRUMFIELD To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters... ROBERT KIRKMAN I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American... J. C. WATTS On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just m... JONATHAN HAIDT I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our ... DAVID BLUNKETT I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. ... ROBERT TAYLOR There's an awful lot of runs that our opponents are putting on us that we're not giving back. We're ... CURT YAEGER Twenty-five years ago, I was a guy with an idea to give the public access to political events, witho... BRIAN LAMB Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embr... BRENé BROWN An awful lot of negotiation occurs ahead of time, and in the overwhelming number of cases either the... LAWRENCE WHITE I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me ... ANITA ELBERSE After we successfully concluded our last collective bargaining agreement in June, and with six years... RUSS GRANIK It's no secret that our company views sports television as valuable to our overall television strate... JEFF SHELL Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itsel... JIMMY CARTER There's an awful lot of junk on the Internet. Our fear is that we haven't reached the point where pe... MARC BEAUCHAMP We spent a lot of money on buying clothes, but we spend our best times naked.. EYDEN I. I think over spring break, a lot of us had some time to see our families and get our bodies rested u... ASHLEY KEY Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeles... JEREMY BERNSTEIN This is a guy that has challenged the most powerful people in our country and in our world, for that... HILARY SHELTON That's not a lot, but if everybody did that, pretty soon it would add up to a lot of money. It is im... JEFFREY MILLS ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a... JACK KEROUAC I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They p... CATHERINE LACEY It's not going to be the individual ... technical (public health) decisions that are going to hold o... PETER SINGER Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence ROBERT E. MCAFEE, MD. Our athletic programs are part of our public face, and unfortunately our scandals have become part o... JERRY HAUSER On the way over, we had 33 contributors on the bus. I don't know exactly for sure, but I do know an ... ED LILLIS Public and employee safety is at the top of the priority list at the RGRTA. Making technological adv... MARK AESCH WFSU is incredibly lucky to offer top quality programming on FM, with a news and classical station, ... JENNIFER WOLF Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o... REBECCA MACKINNON It is important that we speak with one voice on this issue in the European Union, uphold our common ... HEINZ FISCHER During her nearly 20 years in the television community, Susanne has demonstrated an extraordinary cr... BETTY COHEN We've had 24 hours in a day for an awful long time. People's brains evolved based on a slower experi... CATHY O'KEEFE There's an awful lot of good stuff out there, and we want to make sure that viewers know where to fi... DAVID NEAL A lot of the problem is it's not in sync with some of the neighborhood values of the people living t... LINDA CRIDER Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and p... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Having tired of the predictable left versus right debates in cable news, I am eager to offer a diffe... GLENN BECK We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays o... VIRCHAND GANDHI I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six tele... BILL COSBY The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it i... HUSTON SMITH Our problem is not on offense. Our problem is defense, and until we realize that, we're going to str... ALLEN IVERSON Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but ... VAL KILMER This is not the way to resolve things, ... The problem is more than that. It is in our values, in th... JAIME ORTEGA Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON We learn that our spirit is not apart from us; it is a part of us. We gain awareness of the exact na... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS We're trying to create something new. Something that is not television but uses a little bit of tele... DAVID BOHRMAN What you're seeing is a combination of negotiating tactic and legislative posturing. The GAO report ... CRAIG MOFFETT What you're seeing is a combination of negotiating tactic and legislative posturing, ... The GAO rep... CRAIG MOFFETT The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. JACOB LEW
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