“The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.” NeedsLongMeditationBuddhismNewsLong TimeGood News Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.” LongStuffWatchesEmotionalNewsLong TimeGet Real Author:Missy Peregrym
“There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.” HumansLongSacrificeNewsLong TimeRacismSlaverySpeciesSexismHolocaustBrutalityBad NewsIdiocyAgeism Author:Maya Angelou
“There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.” PeopleTryingLongHas BeensCountryPartyMovementBrotherNewsLong TimeHorseWingsSeedsTeaUpsetAgendasFoxesRight WingBillionaireTea PartyFox NewsStockings Author:Al Gore
“I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.” PeopleTryingLongWantedNewsLong TimeGratefulMiserableCablesPunditsCable News Author:Meghan McCain
“The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.” PeopleWantLongPolicyTerribleNewsLong TimeAssumingAdministrationMotivatedDisagreeTerrible ThingsFunny ThingsGrindBad NewsTalk To MeAxes Author:Seymour Hersh
“My country has been wracked with violence for a long time. Just to see all the violence on the news makes you sick. It's true that violence is in our nature, but I try to explore deeply where it comes from and where it goes and what it creates. Not in a moralistic or preachy way, but just to observe the real consequences of violence in a human being or in a society.” WayTryingHumansLongHas BeensRealCountryHuman BeingsViolenceNewsLong TimeConsequenceSickConsequences Of Violence Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.” LongThreeSocialMediaGrewInternetGrew UpNewsLong TimeSocial MediaJournalismLong Time AgoCables Author:Susan Rice
“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.” LongCountryWhiteMediaTrumpCreatingNewsLong TimeHotDebateCyclesPhenomenonJuneDominatingCaptivatingAnnouncingCandidacy Author:Megyn Kelly
“We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookNightSeeingEventsTelevisionNewsLong TimeScientistMajorityClimateExtremesConvincedWeatherRelatedRevelationsAddressesEvery NightTelevision NewsBook Of RevelationExtreme Weather Author:Al Gore
“We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.” WorldMeanLongTwoSeemsAbleLostPossibilityPlanetsTrumpDegreesNewsLong TimeIncreaseMarkCardsTriumphSensitiveGlobal WarmingStoppingTemperatureBad News Author:Bill McKibben
“I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.” LongHas BeensStillsShowsBigsKidsUsedFansNewsLong TimeLocalsSan FranciscoTalk ShowsLocal News Author:Margaret Cho