"We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money."

-- Linda Ellerbee

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“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
“Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.
“Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.”

Source : Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1948). “What is man”
“I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.”
“There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!”
“I haven't rebelled yet. I don't know, I think maybe just moving up here (to L.A.) by myself counts. But I never really felt the urge. I was always given so much freedom as a kid. My mom's motto was, 'My trust is yours to lose, so I'll give you every trust in the world. But the second I give you an inch and you take a mile, I'm going to pull it back.'”
“Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.”
“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.18, The Floating Press

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