Edwin Diamond famous quotes

Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.
-- Edwin Diamond

#Media #Simplicity #Carter

"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."
-- Edwin Diamond

#Media #Cities #Tree

In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television).
-- Edwin Diamond

#Fun #Home #Night

The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.
-- Edwin Diamond

#New York #Media #Two

Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman comes on to say that tomorrow will be nice).
-- Edwin Diamond

#Sex #Nice #Media

I'm somewhat diffident about cuffing television on its rabbit ears for not being something else.
-- Edwin Diamond

#Media #Rabbits #Ears

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.
-- Edwin Diamond

#Art #Long #Special

California: Sunny nutland.
-- Edwin Diamond

#Travel #Home #California

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.