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Television is democracy at its ugliest.


Paddy Chayefsky

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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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PADDY CHAYEFSKY You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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PADDY CHAYEFSKY Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.
JIM MCGRATH The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
AARON BROWN Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
FRED FRIENDLY This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't bel...
JACK GOULD I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and i...
T.S. ELIOT The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government i...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. North Adams is working very hard to impro...
WAYNE J. WILKINSON Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
FRED W. FRIENDLY We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures... ETA is aiming at disrupti...
ANA PALACIO We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its in...
JOSEPH PULITZER My concern is not for me, ... but for Jordan, its stability, its progress, its democracy (and) its p...
KING HUSSEIN While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ...
DAVID THEWLIS In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
JACK KINGSTON Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
PAUL HENDERSON Look out, Paddy Power, someone's just parked a tank on your lawn.
DAVID HARDING I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy, and Congress must do everything in its power to e...
LASHAWN WARREN I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
P. J. O'ROURKE In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
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BARRY M. MEYER When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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JOSHUA LANDIS Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it
DAVID HOCKNEY Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER SAMARASINGHE Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER PRASAD SAMARASINGHE The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.
HARLAN COBEN Poor Paddy of all Christian men I thinkOn basest food pours down the vilest drink.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER This is the ugliest period in our politics in many decades, ... tribalism.
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feeling...
IRVING BABBITT Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
DAVID HOCKNEY Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its hero...
AGNES REPPLIER Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial cou...
ERNEST MANDEL He's the ugliest cheerleader I've ever seen.
DANILO PINNOCK That's the ugliest woman I've ever seen.
DAVID NIVEN We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been dir...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been dir...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essenc...
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
ALI ABDULLAH SALEH Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its s...
ABDOULAYE WADE Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What is at stake is not the provincial council elections, but democracy.
RANIL WICKREMESINGHE Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
NOEL COWARD Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The...
ROSA LUXEMBURG Even the ugliest scars have uglier stories behind them
GABRIEL SANTILLAN We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really n...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and...
ROBERT KENNEDY America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom...
BENAZIR BHUTTO Selfishness comes after self. Looks like the 'self' is overtaken. This is what you call the ugliest ...
EPHDAN Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
CHAKA FATTAH It's the ugliest situation I have ever seen with officials.
RIP HATFIELD People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.
JOSHUA BELL Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by ...
Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.
ELIZABETH C. BUNCE Bruce and his entire Television Group team represent an unrivaled television operation that is head ...
ALAN HORN Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like t...
TSAI ING-WEN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, ma...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are do...
STEVE JOBS Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM We're looking for the ugliest bulldog you can get your hands on.
DOLPH PULLIAM A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, des...
ALEX TABARROK Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy c...
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PHILLIP E. JOHNSON The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe e...
JOHN DEWEY Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Our democracy is a democracy under siege.
MANGALA SAMARAWEERA Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeles...
JEREMY BERNSTEIN I couldn't understand it, [then] I realized that everything Chayefsky wrote about happened. And so, ...
GEORGE CLOONEY There is no beauty that is more beautiful than a kind heart for the ugliest are always the ugly hear...
ARES E. R. BAES It endangers the mother-state, poisons its democracy, corrupts its enlightenment and thwarts its abi...
ARI SHAVIT Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply...
HA-JOON CHANG The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human ri...
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