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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country."
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"TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please."

"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."

"The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do."

"People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time."

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make."

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail."
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