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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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.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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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.
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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.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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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.
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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!
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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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.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
