"The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it."

-- Tim Conway

#People Quotes #Television Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.”
“If not yet lost to all the sense of shame.”
“My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.”
“Chic is nothing but the right nothing.”
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.”
“I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”
“No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.”

Source : John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.364, Applewood Books

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