Pbs Quotes

• Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cutting, Support, Balance

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2012

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• I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

  Mort Sahl

  War, Bob, Troops

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2011

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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Cooking, Gourmet

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  Nas

  Discovery, Grew, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Art, Media, Mtv

  Song: I Don't Know And I Don't Care, 1999

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• Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

  Chris Thile

  Watches, Bars, Television

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• Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

  Steve Martin

  Lonely, Book, Heart

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• Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Media, Sea, Npr

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• You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

  Chamillionaire

  Special, Sound, Want

  Source: www.complex.com

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• my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Hate, Ideas

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• Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

  Gwen Ifill

  Depth, Analysis, News

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

  Allison Williams

  Dad, Thinking, Hbo

  "A Racy Big Break for Brian Williams' Daughter" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

  Jacques Pepin

  Simple, Florida, Cooking

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• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  Tyler Florence

  Nice, Years, Careers

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• In my opinion, the most important thing as a woman leader-and I learned this early through a whole bunch of great women who were in my life (and men, I have to say)-is that if you have a position of leadership and power and you don't use it in a different way, then you're wasting it. So when people used to say to me when I was the first woman president of PBS, "Well, you know, does that mean that as a woman you're going to be a different kind of president?" And I would say, "Well, I hope so!"

  Pat Mitchell

  Strong Women, Mean, People

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• I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Sorry, Fun, Cutting

  Jennifer Armintrout (2006). “Blood Ties Book One: The Turning”, p.321, MIRA

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• The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, Idols, Python

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• When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Morning, Men, Thinking

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• Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, Cnn, Wife

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

  Eric Idle

  Python, Dvds, Cds

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, War, Iraq

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• I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

  Mitt Romney

  Bird, Pay, Election

  First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Years, Tonight

  "PBS To Air Eddie Murphy Receiving The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize". "On Point" with Steve Inskeep, wfae.org. November 23, 2015.

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