Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Ann Landers Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Camille Paglia Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alan Coren Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
    Cool Tombs (1918)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Napoleon Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Napoleon Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brad Bird Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Anita Hill Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Samuel Pepys Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • John Updike That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which builds is better than that which is built.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes That which costs little is less valued.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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