Tom Shales Quotes

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1948

Topics

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I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

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Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.

David Souter

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Working out has always been a way of life for me.

Clarence Clemons

LifeMeWayAlwaysOutWorking

My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.

Aretha Franklin

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I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

LifeMy LifeNeverWouldExchange

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

William Hague

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Philip K. Dick

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Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

Phebe Novakovic

GoodHelpShareholdersUsLick

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

Thomas Piketty

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Thomas Carlyle

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Boko Haram has pledged its allegiance and support to ISIS. The Northern Nigerian-based Islamic terrorist group wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria and beyond.

Richard Grenell

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I just want people to remember I'm not perfect. I just try to lead with love every day.

Kylie Bunbury

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