"While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda."

-- Fred W. Friendly

#Issues Quotes #Media Quotes #Judging Quotes

“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”

Source : Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”
“The music that I play is much more accepted in America. Do you know what I mean? Americans recognize and not necessarily country music. I go to a lot of places in Canada and they go "I don't like country music" and they think I'm a country musician. When I am a country musician but not a country musician like they think of.”
“Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.”
“God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love.”
“So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
“I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.”
“The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.”
“The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.”

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