"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was."

-- Art Buchwald

#Thinking Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Television Quotes

“Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.”
“We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?”
“When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.”
“They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
“Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.”
“Evil alone has oil for every wheel.”
“A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.”

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