"The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV."

-- David Edelstein

#Independent Quotes #Hands Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”
“The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.”
“The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.”
“Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.”
“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC
“It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.”
“I like having curves - I'm proud of them!”
“Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.”

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