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The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. ↗

— John Sununu

#argument #because #coarse #debate #drives

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#going #i #killed #our #rather

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #conciliation #fair #iraq #just

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#consider #considered #doing #filmmaker #gonna

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#album #become #been #familiar #had

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#consider #cook #dinner #dinner party #drink

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#engaging #familiar #familiar things #make #most

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#am #any #i #i am #israel