Morley Safer Quotes
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.
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I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.
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Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
