#rating

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #conceptual #conceptual art #gave #idea

We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. ↗

— Norman Lear

#basically #fought #good #got #i

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#avenue #begins #buying #desks #discussing

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. ↗

— Norman Lear

#director #get #producer #ratings #writer

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#disintegrating #eyes #foreign #foreign policy #includes

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#bob dylan #comes #difference #does #dylan

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#commercial #commercial work #drama #greater #happen

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#being #eye #good #i #i do

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#cecil #character #chief #commandments #daily

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#been #corporate #declines #down #economic