Jack Valenti Quotes
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.Jack Valenti
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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 -
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick -
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
Patricia Hewitt -
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra -
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
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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 -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
Tamron Hall -
Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
Malala Yousafzai -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens -
I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
Daisy Ridley
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A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
J. A. Konrath -
I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
Lara Stone -
I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
R. L. Stine -
He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
Edward Everett Hale -
Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.
Philip Treacy -
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti