Jack Valenti Quotes

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Interesting
  • Ideas
  • Roles

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Million
  • Diabetes
  • Latino

• I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.

  

  Oscar Fernandes
  • Different
  • Country
  • Political

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Light
  • See
  • Darkness

• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • World
  • Trying
  • Day

• Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Different
  • Years
  • Kid

• Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • May
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • People
  • Thought
  • Villain

• The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

  

  Arthur Baer

• Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People

• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Together
  • Innovation

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
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