“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
Michael Dobbs (1948) British conservative politician and best-selling author
“They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.”
Fiction, The Right to an Answer (1960)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state — so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state. … A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.
“I can say that. I have a television show.”
Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian
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“Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.”
Ken Dodd (1927–2018) English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
Quoted in Manchester Evening News, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/comedy/s/234/234894_dodds_bolton_bonus.htmlDodd's Bolton bonus, Natalie Anglesey. (2008-04-28)
“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”
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John Ribat (1957) cardinal
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“Well you say that it's gospel,
But I know that it's only church.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor