"Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Cutting Quotes #Pbs Quotes #Support Quotes

“Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.”
“Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.102
“Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil liberties when there is a hint of press censorship in the air. And educators become perturbed at every effort to curb academic freedom. But too seldom do all of these become militant when ostensibly the rights of only one group are threatened. They do not always react to the truism that when the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”
“With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasyâ€”something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clichÃ© archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.”
“I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.”
“The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.”

Source : John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”
“I'm interested in representation that falls outside of what would be socially appropriate, or acceptable, or beautiful. The world is going through a very fundamentalist moment. You have right-wing politics and misogyny and religion employed together everywhere - here in the US, with issues like abortion. Religion is a very fraught and complicated topic, but at the same time, like all grand historical narratives, there is a potential for challenging, or rethinking the kinds of subjectivities that these meta-narratives produce.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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