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> [When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/when-television-came-roaring-in-after-the-war-world-war-ii-they-did-a/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

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## More by Alistair Cooke

> [It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/it-has-always-been-cited-as-an-irrepressible-symptom-of-america-s/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/no-myth-dies-harder-and-none-is-more-regularly-debunked-by-the-facts/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-emblem-on-the-necktie-reserved-for-the-members-of-the-royal-and/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [If computers take over, it will serve us right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/if-computers-take-over-it-will-serve-us-right/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [ \[In 1889\] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/in-1889-the-last-big-tract-of-indian-land-was-declared-open-for/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/every-sport-pretends-to-be-literature/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/to-watch-an-american-on-a-beach-or-crowding-into-a-subway-or-buying-a/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/to-the-goggling-unbeliever-texans-say-as-people-always-say-about/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/i-talk-to-my-typewriter-and-that-is-what-i-ve-been-working-on-for-40/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/i-hasten-to-say-to-snobs-from-the-surrey-pine-and-sand-country-that/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/a-professional-is-a-person-who-can-do-his-best-at-a-time-when-he/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/liberty-is-the-luxury-of-self-discipline-that-those-nations/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/the-best-thing-about-eisenhower-s-presidency-was-his-jeffersonian/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/there-is-even-as-with-no-other-game-a-fascinating-detective/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

> [It's an acting job - acting natural.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cooke/it-s-an-acting-job-acting-natural/)

[Alistair Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cooke/)

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