Canadian - Journalist | November 8, 1931 - May 19, 2016
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Morley Safer
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The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.
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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
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What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
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What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
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Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
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Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
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I don't see myself as a Luddite.
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We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
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McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
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I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.
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I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
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