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First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

#hold #must #rational #thinker #values

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#coarse #cultural #even #first #first time

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#face #future #his #man #reactionary

One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#happens #involved #next #person #repeat

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#became #been #commandments #dances #golden

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#caribbean #jamaica-kincaid #men

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#better #bright #child #day #forward

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#enough #great #great things #needed #plan

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#fork #fork in the road #road #take #you