"A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair."

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Source : Jack Valenti's comments on the Cable television industry in testimony to Congress (June 1974), as quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 27, 2007.

Jack Valenti

#Thinking Quotes #Television Quotes #Unfair Quotes

“The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.”
“You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.”

Source : "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.
“Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.”
“When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.”

Source : "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.
“When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.”
“You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.”

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