#tan

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#internet #just #lowered #media #news

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #being #between #comedian #comic

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #dress #flaw #implies #mind

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. ↗

— Michael Medved

#cable tv #conservatives #despite #disregarded #excluded

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. ↗

— Michael Medved

#business #casting #colorblind #experiments #movie

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. ↗

— Michael Medved

#box office #create #entertainment #entertainment industry #first

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. ↗

— Michael Medved

#challenge #continues #dimensions #every #habitual

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#broken #enforcement #ethics #fix #importantly