George Gerbner Quotes
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.
Quotes to Explore
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
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The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
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First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.
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If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.
