"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."

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Source : U.S. News & World Report, June 12, 1967.

Fred W. Friendly

#Television Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Shirts are for pussies. I take my pants off!”
“Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.”
“When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.”
“What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.”
“We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.”
“It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.”

Source : Eve Babitz (1979). “Sex and rage: advice to young ladies eager for a good time : a novel”, Random House
“Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.”
“It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.18, Random House

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