"Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident."

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Source : Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

Patricia J. Williams

#Coffee Quotes #Land Quotes #Television Quotes

“Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of Godâ€™s holiness and our sinfulness.”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.17, Multnomah
“I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.”
“There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.”
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
“Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.”
“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

Source : "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.
“I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.”
“If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.”

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