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Jack Valenti Quotes

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1921 - April 26, 2007

Topics

Home Today Power Control Parent

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.

Water Food Plants Grow Magic Shade

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

Cool Think Now Way

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

Robert H. Schuller

Together Beginning People Help You

I think everyone talks about talent. It's really one of the most overused terms. It comes down to, do you play, and do you win? Talent is one factor, but certainly not the only one.

Talent Win Think You Down Play

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

Stephen Sondheim

Growing Up You Growing Up Got Show

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Good Power Doing Exercise Doing Good

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

Mistakes My Own Realize Own Critic

If I can, for whatever reason, inspire and motivate people, that's a good thing.

Good People Inspire I Can Reason

I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.

Judah Friedlander

Live Car City Night Drive Slow

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Time Face America Land Nation Lifts

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

I Am Loving Person Romance Sappy Am

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

Life Poetry Enough Want Kind Large

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