"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room."

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Alan Coren

#People Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Television Quotes

“Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.”
“Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.”
“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”
“I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.”
“Listen,â€ F. Jasmine said. â€œWhat Iâ€™ve been trying to say is this. Doesnâ€™t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I canâ€™t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?”
“Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.”
“It doesn't matter who you fall in love with, as long as you have love in your life.”
“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.”

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