Neil Postman Quotes

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Neil Postman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003

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You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Joel Sternfeld

PhotographyYouOutAnythingTake

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

John L. Phillips

LookingFindingLooksNewWillKeep

I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the up-n-comers are doing.

Matt Hardy

CompetitionDoingKnowWantTryUp

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

Jeff Bridges

FavoriteMovieFavoritesAbout

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

Jeff Conaway

BusinessSayHollywoodThey SayTown

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

LoveMeExcellentStillVampires

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Tracey Ullman

FunnyGetJustOlderKnitPrefer

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

Jayne Mansfield

DoingStill

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

Jonathan Levine

HomeMusicSongBuildingKindWay

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

David Strathairn

HistoryTelevisionNowFilmBooks

I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.

Claudio Ranieri

TimeI CanRelaxationLikeRead

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

Chuck Norris

HouseWhiteNeedChinaClearThing

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