“Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.” WhiteHellTelevisionEatingCleanFolksCellsFedsJailVietnamTailsBailWatching Television Author:Muhammad Ali
“I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.” PeopleWayIdeasWantedFilmFightingResultsHellTelevisionMountainIndependentGood IdeasDistributionIndependent Film Author:Joel Surnow
“Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.” SaidStatesFunnyRememberPresidentUnitedUnited StatesHellPolicyTelevisionFaultsIranForeign PolicyScandalNever EndingReaganomicsIran Contra Book:Dave Barry Turns Forty Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty
“Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield.” MenWayKindMeanArtWarFormPoliticalCoursesBoysEconomyHellTelevisionIndustrySpeechMessagesSakeNewspapersPrincipalGrandchildrenColumnsBattlefieldsPolitical SpeechesMerchandising Book:Bluebeard: A Novel Source: Bluebeard: A Novel
“I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?” HellTelevisionCourtBlowAlcoholicsAlcoholics Anonymous Author:Paula Poundstone