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Tom Shales has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of…
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous…
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the…
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…
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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…
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Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate…
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that…
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such…
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
— Donald L. Carcieri
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Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying…
— Jerry Falwell
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People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school…
— Cal Thomas
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...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because…
— William J. Clinton
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not…
— Unknown Author
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…
— Thomas Boswell
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The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly…
— Erica Jong
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It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.
— Dan Rather
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