When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow
Related The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ... RICHARD CURTIS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B... RICHARD CURTIS I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. HILL HARPER I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. ERIN MORGENSTERN Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon... ERIN MORGENSTERN I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A se... ERIN MORGENSTERN There are two things I would not want to engage Arnold Schwarzenegger in: arm wrestling and a TV app... BILL WHALEN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as... RICHARD CURTIS It's only awkward if it matters. JOYCE RACHELLE Let the circus be... It is the world and children that are the key. TONY SAMARA I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest ... M.R. MATHIAS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re... DADA BHAGWAN Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are... APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the c... TINY TIM When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible SOTONYE ANGA "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow EDWARD R. MURROW When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa... DAN HARMON Democracy is like the free circus performed by the politicians DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murki... MANDY HALE Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks. "Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turni... ERIN MORGENSTERN I believe that the circus is a place where people can forget about the headaches and heartaches of l... BELLO KNOCK The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA The circus is very important to the Gulf Coast background. We're going to keep that circus imprint. JIM SHIRLEY When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear ... NANCY ISENBERG The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday ... ERIN MORGENSTERN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up.... GREG BEHRENDT Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me ("The... W.B. YEATS This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE If we do not understand something we pretend it does not exist .Pretending that something does not e... GARY F EVANS... People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER She has excellent range. She has made a couple of plays out there that are worthy of (TV) highlights... CHAD MCKNIGHT The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the t... ABHIJIT NASKAR We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV s... WADAH KHANFAR The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: the... FERNANDO BOTERO Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a... ALAN SUGAR The beauty of everything here is that even though they are all part of circus acts, everything is sc... BRENDA LEWIS Snake, what’s wrong? Snake? SNAAKKKKEEEE! 志倉千代丸 As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t... CHRISTINA ENGELA Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch. JEFF MORROW Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requ... ERIN MORGENSTERN Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his ... ERIN MORGENSTERN The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. ABHIJIT NASKAR What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?" "No, Julius. It's the end of the ci... EOIN COLFER We knew it was a huge game, and Monty played phenomenal. He made some of what I call circus saves th... COLBY GENOWAY My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I... JANE PAULEY Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. KIN HUBBARD It takes us closer to our overall goal, which is to turn every display that a consumer interfaces wi... BLAKE KRIKORIAN There are ways to get noticed and ways to be taken seriously that would be beneficial to Iowans, as ... CULLEN SHEEHAN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when i... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward ... DON LEMON It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... SHERRILYN KENYON I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known te... RICHARD WRIGHT That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spir... KIN HUBBARD Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet... DOUGLAS ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into somet... DOUGLAS ADAMS When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Of another lie "You said that you will be with me...", "Everything what I want I will get..", but???... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER Hey... you gonna ignore me like that? ... Forever? ... You gonna rej... DEYTH BANGER We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER Why try to have pigs fly When ducks already can _ Why try to have pigs fly When ducks already can ELLA C. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han... ANUSHA ATUKORALA Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās. IMANTS ZIEDONIS
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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