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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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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing so perilous as procrastination
— John Lyly
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
— Audre Lorde
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave…
— William Shakespeare
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I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst…
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
— Maria Edgeworth
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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are…
— Carl Sagan
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It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.…
— Joseph O'Neill
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In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and…
— Jay E. Adams
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Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I…
— Confucius
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