Tom Shales Quotes

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

Jill Soloway

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

John Peel

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Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.

Rivers Cuomo

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Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

Mignon McLaughlin

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It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

Jasmine Guinness

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When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

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Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

Dimitri Payet

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There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

David Spade

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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

Chrissie Hynde

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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Glibness will get your anywhere.

Philip Johnson

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I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

Scott Bakula

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