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Fred W. Friendly Quotes

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Fred W. Friendly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 30, 1915 - March 3, 1998

Topics

Lie Journalism Dishonest Euphemism

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

Vote Heartbeat Forcing Deal Been

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.

Vision Creative Care Three Want Up

I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.

World Financial Internet Doing Help

If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.

You Back Go Liked Really Barbarian

For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

Mirror Myself Me Song Book Hip-Hop

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

Beautiful Imagination Reality Feel

The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.

Passion Community Creative Space

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Truth Truth Is Distance Why Line

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Positive Attitude Spiritual Negative

I always wanted to teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

Teach Always Wanted

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

School Doing Trying Back Independent

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

People Me Tough Think America Us

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