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Quotes by Critic
"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."
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"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."
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"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."
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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."
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"Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over except when they are different."
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"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
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"The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll."
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"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear."
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"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution."
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"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."
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"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
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"Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline."
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"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time."
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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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"Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter."
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"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"
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"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
Man,
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"How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language."
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"No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent homes and can be macho and women-hating, misguided assumptions about what makes a male gay still flourish. Every day boys who express feelings are psychologically terrorized, and in extreme cases brutally beaten, by parents who fear that a man of feeling must be homosexual. Gay men share with straight men the same notions about acceptable masculinity."
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"It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction."
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"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."
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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
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