Pauline Kael Quotes
TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.Pauline Kael
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
Magic Johnson -
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
Hallie Ephron -
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
Malik Bendjelloul -
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole -
I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
Sam Hunt -
History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
Edmund Morgan
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
Caitlin Doughty -
Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer -
My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.
Valerie Simpson -
I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
Eartha Kitt -
Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
Walter Cronkite -
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
Ted Cruz -
I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
Frances McDormand -
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot -
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
Caitlin Doughty -
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.
Judith Butler -
For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.
Umberto Eco -
Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.
Abe Lemons -
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
John Howard -
TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.
Pauline Kael