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- Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
- Hodding Carter
- CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
- Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
- Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
- It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
- H. E. Martz
- It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
- Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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