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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks. ↗

— James Lipton

#first #first of all #force #i #me

And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television. ↗

— James Lipton

#chance #come #god #i #knew

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene. ↗

— James Lipton

#hackman #him #live #means #moment

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. ↗

— James Lipton

#being #criticize #critics #doing #done

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #audience #because #craft #decision

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fall #favor #honor #more #sometimes

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview. ↗

— James Lipton

#began #conversation #how #i #kind

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. ↗

— John Mayer

#idea #just #kind #present #song