"TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion."

-- Neil Postman

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“Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency”
“When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.”

Source : "Buzzworthy Exclusive: Teyana Taylor for President!". Buzzworthy interview, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.
“i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people”
“And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.”
“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
“The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.”
“Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.”
“Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.”

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