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• On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Home, Weather

  "Now" on PBS with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2004.

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• They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

  Song: Radio, Radio, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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• We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Believe, Mean, Light

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 3-4, 1984.

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• Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Television

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• Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

  Paul Harvey

  Men, Harvey

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• I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah

  Johnny Mercer

  Song, Cowboy, Causes

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• To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Secret

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• I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

  Billy Joel

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

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• They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Memories, Keys

  Song: Baby Grand, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

  Josh Groban

  Real, Mtv, Names

  Inside Connection magazine, February 2004.

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• I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Voice, Important

  "Luciano Pavarotti Is Dead at 71" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2007.

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• Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, War, Gun

  "America Undercover (Left of the Dial)". TV Series, March 31, 2005.

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• John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Guy, Police

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

  John Brunner

  Rumor, Foundation, Santa

  John Brunner (2014). “The Sheep Look Up”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Flying High, Sometimes

  Song: Sequel, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.

  Patrick Carney

  Blow, Mind, Facts

  "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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• I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.

  Jimmy Savile

  Girl, Needs, Done

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.

  Donnie Simpson

  Listening, Age, Ears

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

  Donnie Simpson

  Son, Thinking, Generations

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Littles, Noise, Awful

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

  Franz von Papen

  People, Stressed, Cinema

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

  L. Neil Smith

  Giving, Als, Talk Radio

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sweet, Inspiration, Practice

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dream, Dna, Radio Waves

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.95, Penguin

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