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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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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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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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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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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I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
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I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
