"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."

-- Robert Waterman McChesney

#New York Quotes #Government Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?”
“We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.”
“Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter â€˜Iâ€™ is the heart of Fâ€Iâ€RSTâ€¦ (F Inspiration R S T).”
“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.”
“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.205, New York Review of Books
“My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.”
“I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.”
“I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”

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