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Roone Arledge

"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

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"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Weaklings must lie."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It takes good memory to keep up a lie."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Politicians often lie."

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Roone Arledge
"But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me."

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Roone Arledge
"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."

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Roone Arledge
"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

Television

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Roone Arledge
"If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show."

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Roone Arledge
"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."

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Roone Arledge
"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in."

People

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Roone Arledge
"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."

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Roone Arledge
"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."

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Roone Arledge
"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

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Roone Arledge
"I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?"

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