Carlo D'Este Quotes

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

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• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Sports
  • Television
  • News

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Good
  • Truth
  • News

• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • News
  • Editor
  • Broadcaster

• My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dad

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • Funny
  • News

• Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Great
  • Real
  • Pretty

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Tired
  • Boredom

• The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Done
  • News
  • Copy

• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Read
  • News

• It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Never
  • Lies
  • Now

• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • News
  • Watch
  • Obsessed

• I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Speed

• We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Born
  • News
  • Fact

• Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

  

  Bill Gates
  • News
  • Function
  • CEO

• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Moral

• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• The American empire should be destroyed.

  

  Aleksandr Dugin
  • American
  • Destroyed
  • Empire

• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

  

  Carlo D'Este
  • News
  • Speed
  • Boredom