Hal Straus quote: "There's an enormous audience for people who want to interpret what's going on around them and who really enjoy the give and take of debate on political and cultural issues."

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HAL STRAUS

This feature is a ticket into the policy arena, exposing the public to the ideas that initiate and g...
HAL STRAUS

The Post newspaper provides an incredibly deep and smart opinion report. The Web-only content supple...
HAL STRAUS

We believe you could reasonably expect 10%. We don't see anything that would change the long-term nu...
BOB STRAUS

We don't see the type of value in the sector that we saw six or seven months ago.
BOB STRAUS

Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the ti...
BOB STRAUS

Pessimism about the short term has created opportunity.
BOB STRAUS

The heaviest weight on the shoulders of investors shying away from the sector is the rise in oil pri...
BOB STRAUS

Earnings growth is strong, interest rates are low, and the environment is positive for stocks. The m...
BOB STRAUS

A lot of smaller Internet companies have begun to prove their business models and are priced at leve...
BOB STRAUS

We still think there's at least 10 percent upside in tech, ... The sector's had a tremendous run, so...
ROBERT STRAUS

These are not simple issues. These are the kinds of events that shock the conscience of humankind, b...
SCOTT STRAUS

Had we not done what we did, and told customers when there was a boon that I didn't want to do it be...
JOZEF STRAUS

It's very important to note that we think this merger will provide an increased opportunity to maint...
JOZEF STRAUS

At present, order levels clearly reflect lower carrier capital spending and the resulting desire of ...
JOZEF STRAUS

The business downturn has been rapid, steep and unprecedented, and the continuing lack of visibility...
JOZEF STRAUS

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is ...
OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his chara...
HAL HOLBROOK

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fam...
HAL NEWHOUSER

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill...
HAL BORLAND

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth t...
HAL SPARKS

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
HAL SUTTON

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
HAL SUTTON

I feel good. I think everything went good.
HAL SUTTON

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are play...
HAL SUTTON

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn&#...
HAL SUTTON

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt o...
HAL SUTTON

I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel...
HAL SUTTON

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We ...
HAL SUTTON

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people yo...
HAL SUTTON

Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quick...
HAL STRATTON

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater ...
HAL STRATTON

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out ...
HAL SPARKS

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financ...
HAL SPARKS

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behi...
HAL SPARKS

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is al...
HAL SPARKS

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things ...
HAL SPARKS

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is al...
HAL SPARKS

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
HAL SPARKS

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine s...
HAL SPARKS

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst fo...
HAL SPARKS

Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like &...
HAL SPARKS

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have t...
HAL SPARKS

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.
HAL SPARKS

If I have anything, it's tenacity.
HAL SPARKS

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will mak...
HAL SPARKS

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
HAL SPARKS

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have...
HAL SPARKS

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They...
HAL SPARKS

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
HAL SPARKS

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.
HAL ROACH

The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
HAL ROACH

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
HAL ROACH

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're thr...
HAL ROACH

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business i...
HAL PRICE

I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and ...
HAL PRICE

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's be...
HAL PRICE

I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a thea...
HAL PRICE

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of m...
HAL NEWHOUSER

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented...
HAL NEWHOUSER

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It w...
HAL NEWHOUSER

Never give up, and never give in.
HAL NEWHOUSER

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from takin...
HAL LINDSEY

The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth ...
HAL LINDSEY

I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept...
HAL LINDSEY

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
HAL LINDSEY

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a na...
HAL LINDSEY

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on...
HAL LINDEN

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all?...
HAL LINDEN

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time...
HAL LINDEN

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
HAL HOLBROOK

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
HAL HOLBROOK

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was fo...
HAL HOLBROOK

Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
HAL HOLBROOK

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like ...
HAL HOLBROOK

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
HAL HOLBROOK

There's no good guys and bad guys.
HAL HOLBROOK

I have a suicide impulse.
HAL HOLBROOK

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
HAL DAVID

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
HAL DAVID

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and ...
HAL DAVID

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work...
HAL DAVID

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regi...
HAL DAVID

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
HAL DAVID

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you ...
HAL DAVID

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames th...
HAL BOYLE

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...
HAL BORLAND

I don't like to tell lies.
HAL ASHBY

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to los...
HAL ASHBY

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where ...
HAL BOYLE

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ide...
HAL BORLAND

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
HAL BORLAND

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simple...
HAL BORLAND

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
HAL BORLAND

Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kis...
HAL BORLAND

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.
HAL BORLAND

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due...
HAL BORLAND

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it...
HAL BOYLE

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly look...
HAL BORLAND

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
HAL BORLAND

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is li...
HAL BORLAND

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to t...
HAL BORLAND

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideol...
HAL BORLAND

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. O...
HAL BORLAND

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
HAL BORLAND

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. ...
HAL BORLAND

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
HAL BORLAND

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the...
HAL BORLAND

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get wh...
HAL BOYLE

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience...
HAL BORLAND

I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.
HAL NEEDHAM

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
HAL BORLAND

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
HAL NEWHOUSER

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block...
HAL BORLAND

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
HAL BORLAND

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire; but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of...
HAL BORLAND

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
HAL SPARKS

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal minin...
HAL ROGERS

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
HAL LANCASTER

Man was predestined to have free will.
HAL LUYAH

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the init...
HAL BORLAND

We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide,
HAL STRATTON

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is about a communist sympathizer in tights who, uh, takes people's hard...
HAL SPARKS

It's a cute thing. Fame is their new toy.
HAL SPARKS

They say things like 'you know what I like about living in a small town? Everybody goes to church to...
HAL SPARKS

I feel good. It still hurts, but it's better. It's good. I have to talk to the trainers, but I hope ...
HAL GILL

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisf...
HAL BORLAND

The first dose is free. Once you start using a product, you keep using it.
HAL VARIAN

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...
HAL BORLAND

Years end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience c...
HAL BORLAND

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced ...
HAL DUNCAN

We're not hitting on all cylinders like we were last year. But if I'm not mistaken, there were perio...
HAL MCRAE

I don?t think anybody ever had a bad word to say about Ben. When you needed a friend, he was there. ...
HAL HONIG

There has never been a barber shop here before. We're doing really good.
HAL WELLINGTON

And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.
HAL HOLBROOK

In a nutshell, offensively we're struggling. The nuts and bolts of what's going on - that's it. We'r...
HAL MCRAE

The legislative process keeps chugging and nothing happens. It is this indecision that is so difficu...
HAL JOSEPH

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
HAL SPARKS

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquake...
HAL SPARKS

I can't really say we're really surprised. We proposed this, to look for satellites around Pluto.
HAL WEAVER

They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals...
HAL DUNCAN

We couldn't hit that little 7- or 8-foot shot for anything. We've played down here twice and have ha...
HAL MCMANUS

Their fundamental difference was their judgment on human nature. Jefferson believed that people were...
HAL BIDLACK

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human c...
HAL HERZOG

Not in any situation where he had to shoot it. He came off screens, the guy sags off of him, he feel...
HAL MCMANUS

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them...
HAL HERZOG

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists...
HAL SPARKS

In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made the audience laugh, it was a g...
HAL ROACH

Not a lick. It has almost no importance in shaping moral conduct.
HAL ROTHMAN

It's not an avalanche of lower prices, but it's better than it has been.
HAL GERSHMAN

We've got to run him out of the gym some nights because we've gotta get the laundry done.
HAL MCMANUS

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try...
HAL SPARKS

I think it's not an unreasonable position at all, but it's a very tricky calculation for Delphi. On ...
HAL STACK

During the first quarter, we achieved a number of important milestones including the full operationa...
HAL BROWN

There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are depl...
HAL ROGERS

I suppose 'eclectic' is not the best word to describe him. But I think his impact has been felt in s...
HAL HIGDON

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience ...
HAL BORLAND

Zola has been a friend of mine since our days together at Dallas Theological Seminary, several decad...
HAL LINDSEY

It's possible that the C fragment may still come back again.
HAL WEAVER

the American people have a right to know what happened in preparation for and immediately following ...
HAL ROGERS

The sad part is, if they had received the right advice, they could have kept the money growing tax-d...
HAL ROGERS

Don't expect the typewriter to ever completely disappear.
HAL FAIR

They didn't flinch a bit. They just played their game. They knew that D.J. wasn't in there and they ...
HAL MCMANUS

The plate is in fair territory and the player never left the plate. It hit off the plate and stayed ...
HAL HAYDEN

He had a bad calf, but he's feeling a little better know hopefully. We have held him out of some rac...
HAL CLEMENTS

We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, pa...
HAL STRATTON

Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.
HAL DUNCAN

The passing of the torch,
HAL LINDEN

We feel a little bit like we've been duped.
HAL JOHNSON

He's knows I'm a gambler. He figured that I would do that.
HAL SUTTON

We are incredibly grateful to be chosen by Cliff Castle Casino as the recipient of proceeds for the ...
HAL JENSEN

Nothing would be modified or changed on the host.
HAL WEISS

But it's not about the money. It's getting the opportunity to play in a very competitive league and ...
HAL LANIER

It's just unfortunate that I was kind of caught in an awkward position because normally the way I wo...
HAL GILL

I think our fans were anxious to have hockey back, and they're going to be in a good mood. It's a lo...
HAL GILL

He got me. It's not bad. I got like a raspberry out of it,
HAL GILL

Hannu definitely saved us tonight in that second period,
HAL GILL

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads...
HAL GILL

It's frustrating. There was a buzz in the arena, and we were excited to play this one. The fans dese...
HAL GILL

Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the smal...
HAL BOYLE

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ...
HAL BOYLE

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the hu...
HAL BOYLE

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I j...
HAL BOYLE

Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormon...
HAL BOYLE

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.
HAL DUNCAN

I’d take you home with me, see, but two of us in the same Behold? Just wouldn’t work, ends up in...
HAL DUNCAN

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character...
HAL HOLBROOK

He said he had this play and asked if I'd read it, ... I liked it a lot and told him that I'd do it....
HAL HOLBROOK

it disturbed me deeply.
HAL HOLBROOK

The collection of baseline data has been one of the critical issues in the discussion between Montan...
HAL HARPER

His legacy is brilliance, mixed with turmoil.
HAL VOGEL

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the...
HAL BORLAND

It isn't the first-hand information that makes the best speech, but second-hand timing
HAL CHADWICK

I disagree with the use of the word "Pussy" to describe a weak person. Because the Vagina is the tou...
HAL SPARKS

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with...
HAL HIGDON

There's an enormous audience for people who want to interpret what's going on around them and who really enjoy the give and take of debate on political and cultural issues.

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