We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember ... CHUCK NORRIS We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers MARGUERITE GARDINER We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. MARGUERITE GARDINER May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for ... COLLEEN PATRICK-GOUDREAU For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and ... JON HUNTSMAN, JR. We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th... THOMAS MERTON Ed Murrow said that it would be a bad day for television if those who have most money control the ma... DAVID STRATHAIRN Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and go... GARY HAMEL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We want to make our notice more thorough. We have placed announcements through television, newspaper... AKIRA KADOTA To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work... EUGENE DEBS Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work... EUGENE V. DEBS We see this process as at least a means to clean up the list of NGOs, where many 'briefcase' NGOs ex... ANJA BEER We see this process as at least a means to clean up the list of NGOs, where many 'briefcase' NGOs ex... ANJA DE BEER For 30 years, he glimmered to a soft steady brilliance, and to those who got here too late to witnes... DAVID LETTERMAN If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who ... ERTHARIN COUSIN I don't know why I pick up other people's trash. I guess those of us who do have more respect for ou... LOIS BROBST If you look at the example of either television or radio and how long it took to get the spread of t... BILL KEITH It is a way for us to recognize the heroic actions not only for those who died, but for those who st... JOSEPH CROWLEY Statistics show that in the past, people who are hungry are labeled as trying to beat the system. St... HEATHER THORDSEN Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core o... IYANLA VANZANT Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to ... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence,... JEFFERSON BETHKE We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those w... ARTHUR ASHE Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 We must be willing... THOMAS MERTON We all have cracks and tears and shattered glass within our souls. Some have more than others. We do... C. JOYBELL C. I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more lik... ALLISON TOLMAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 We must be willing to accept the bitt... THOMAS MERTON It provides the agencies with some good information, and it helps us take a look at who we are, too. LINDA DAVIS It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can... WILLIAM BOOTH Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to... ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and tho... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of telev... NEIL POSTMAN We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our be... SAMANTHA POWER It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after u... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is w... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level—at best we can end up in a minority, and tho... ANTHONY MARAIS Our purpose is to offer information to those who want it. GEORGE AUSTIN Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter i... SARAH BRADY One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who ... THOMAS SOWELL Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask... NORMAN MACLEAN We must send a strong message both to those who currently serve and to all veterans, including those... LEONARD BOSWELL great. We went and played with the attitude of, 'Look at all those people, everybody's doing somethi... BILLY COX These drugs are far too seductive, and the rewards for using them are far too great for us to think ... CHARLES YESALIS At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated... KEITH STEWART I hear a lot of people say that the fear of death and the fear of public speaking are two of the mai... JEFFERSON BETHKE We have to work hard and not pay attention to those people who talk about this or that, upsetting ou... LI ZHAOXING We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective... LARRY HALE Again today, we take into our hearts and minds those who perished on this site one year ago and also... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial con... STEVE JAMES We drink to those who love us, we drink to those who don't. We drink to those who fuck us, and fuck ... TAMSYN BESTER If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this ... MA JUN Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or ... MICHAEL GRANT We use this (scrimmage) to evaluate who will start for us, and who we thought might start that might... DAVE BARON It is never too late to give to those who do not have. VIKRANT PARSAI We are made of all those who have built and broken us. ATTICUS POETRY And this is a Book We have revealed, blessed, verifying that which is before it, and that you may wa... QURAN This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost and everyone who suffered so mu... GORDON ENGLAND Third-level, life-long relationships are generally few because “their existence implies that those... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are born into a world that is much bigger than ourselves, one that is both enormously frightening... KATARINA CLAIRE ENGLAND ROSS One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi... MICHAEL MORPURGO A lot of us who were from Lizzy in particular, those who were in the front line of leadership, we we... DREXEL DEAL If we accept that opposites (or gradations of circumstances, or differences in ways of being) are al... JULIA WOODMAN There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our li... KENNETH EADE We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, ... JEFFERSON BETHKE We are all shocked at this incident and our thoughts are with those who have been injured. JOHN ROBERTS It's one of those things that if we came in as well as we've been playing and they beat us, they wou... BOB HOWRY We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too... MALCOLM GLADWELL One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai... SUN YAT-SEN Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity... CHARLES DICKENS Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to thos... PATRICK J. KENNEDY Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar... VICTOR HUGO At the core of who we are is the roots of those that have influenced our lives the most and the impa... AJA GRAYDON Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and wil... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed i... BHAGAVAD GITA Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give t... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co... AL GORE If I knew exactly why we shoot foul shots well, I would tell you. I think our kids work on it, and t... BOB KRIZANCIC We are very disappointed for our fans and our staff who were here in the grandstand. The main proble... JEAN TODT Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 [May] the Lord lead further and f... AMY CARMICHAEL When we say ‘our rulers’, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must ... ALFRED KORZYBSKI In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our cr... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots ... JAHANGIR KHAN We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ... SAMUEL BUTLER I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are... ANTHONY ROBBINS When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it... HENRI NOUWEN When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ... HENRI NOUWEN The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho... ALAIN BOTTON The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or tho... ALAIN DE BOTTON When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took... DICK VAN DYKE We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who m... SAMUEL BUTLER Players can be divided, roughly, into four types. Those who have ability and know it, those who have... PAUL BRYANT I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a si... BLAIR UNDERWOOD The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whethe... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are ... SHERRILYN KENYON
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TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein... R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp... R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me. R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou... R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives. R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille... R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German. R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru... R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ... R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my... R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill... R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines. R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's... R. KELLY