"Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider."

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Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

Pauline Kael

#Sex Quotes #Taste Quotes

“The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.”
“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

Source : Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”
“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”
“I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies are being asked to art direct and design video games and characters, so they look better and better. When I see Jurassic Park on the screen, I predicted that games would be able to create a virtual experience that was just as real as the movies - we're not quite there yet, but it's getting better all the time.”
“Hope for forces which you do not yet have.”
“We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.”
“Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.”
“Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.”

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