“Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.” PeopleShouldOpinionOrganizationTablesDinnerConfusedSentimentsPublic OpinionDinner TablePopular OpinionPolling Author:Richard Brookhiser
“We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.” RealLyingGrowthAcceptingSecurityPatternsNostalgiaPartnersDancerTouchingDreadAnticipationLooking BackContinuityLive In The Present Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.” KnowsSaidRecordsMajorsSittingProducersLabelsThese DaysDinosaursDiscussingSitting AroundRecord LabelsAsteroidsItunes Author:Paul McCartney
“I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.” MindJesusControversial Author:Elvis Presley
“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.” WantMightWould BePoliticalFunFrontsTvsFineSeriesDawnSunsetOccasionalTv Series Author:Ronald Reagan
“The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsForgetTroubleMediaFindingsNewsEverydayWarmHorribleGrantedExceptionFriendlyBad ThingsEveryday Life Author:Tom Bodett
“In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.” MenPastRaceCenturyRacismSexismExposedQuarters Author:Warren Farrell
“Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.” BelieveLooksKindSometimesShowsMightWalksTelevisionTiredChecksAwfulBelieve In MeTelevision Shows Author:Johnny Carson
“If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.” IfsDonePassionTelevision Author:Geraldo Rivera