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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.