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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more."

"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

"I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing."

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."
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"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."

"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun."

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."

"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
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