Newton N. Minow Quotes

I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

Newton N. Minow

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• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Myself
  • Film
  • Performance

• The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Work
  • Children

• A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Great
  • Day
  • Burden

• My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Memory

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Suicide

• The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Nice
  • Understanding
  • Grow

• I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma - it's unfair!

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Mom
  • Blessed

• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Look
  • Orange

• I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Group

• I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Service

• You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Music
  • Want

• You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Love
  • You
  • Sacrifice

• I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • She
  • Think

• A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • You
  • Director

• We haven't gotten consistent car supply to meet our needs.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Car
  • Needs
  • Excellent

• But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

  

  Edmond About
  • Long
  • Me
  • France

• Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Problem
  • Habit
  • Instruments

• I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Children
  • War
  • Television

• I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

  

  Newton N. Minow
  • Television
  • Station
  • Wasteland