"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."

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Source : "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

Edward R. Murrow

#Complaining Quotes #Circus Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“Everybody's friend is nobody's.”
“Good leaders must first become good servants.”
“Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
“Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.”
“Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.”
“I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.”

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