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“So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.”

People Has Beens Made Government Today Names Results Policy Television Direct Radio Consent Behalf Government Policy Informed Consent

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.”

Way Two Play Helping Together Names Television Bars Ice Chocolate Cream Ice Cream Here I Am Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.”

Want Names Television Weak Episodes

Author:Shawn Ryan

“Jerry Lewis played on the very first season of Mad About You, and he played basically himself, but he was called some other name. He said he's never done it; he'd never done a half-hour of [sitcom] television. This was 1992 or '93. And I said, "Well how is that?" And he goes, "Nobody ever asked me." It's like the pretty girl at the dance; everybody's too afraid to ask.”

Firsts Wells Said Done Girl Asks Names Hours Half Television Seasons Mad Sitcom Jerry Half Hours Pretty Girl

Author:Paul Reiser

“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”

Names Morning Television Silly

Author:Paul Keating

“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.”

People Thinking Together Faces Names Half Groups Television Including Dozen Reporters Colleagues Wire Small Groups Cannons

Author:David E. Hoffman

“You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.”

Ifs Art Film Names Violence Effects Honest Crime Television Art Is Series Being Honest

Author:Michael Haneke

“Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.”

Bigs Film Names Stars Stage Television Hollywood Assuming Handle Producers Posts Broadway Film Stars Marquee

Book:My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

Source: My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

“In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.”

Song Culture Names Television Taught Listening Standing Pops Titles Relief Breasts Plates Pop Song Future Love

Author:David Byrne

“No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.”

Book Real Play Faces Turns Names Forget Rooms Cases Saws Wonderful Conditions Television Glad Evening Exception Never Forget Curtains Adverse

Author:Groucho Marx

“People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.”

People Mean Light Names Fashion Television Communication Computer Photography Flow Radio Department Telephones Gigs Microphones Nerdy Microwaves Fashion Photography

Author:Juan Enriquez