"On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant."

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Source : Red Barber (1968). “Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press

Red Barber

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“Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.”

Source : Doug Casey (2012). “Totally Incorrect”, p.93, Laissez Faire Books
“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”
“I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!”
“The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.”
“Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.”
“People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.”
“Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,”

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