"It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry."

-- Craig T. Nelson

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“TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.”

Source : Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114
“I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.”
“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.”
“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”
“No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.”
“To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.”

Source : Source: www.dailypress.com
“My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.”

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