Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something."
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Mediums
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C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs."
Richard Prince
Artist
"The subject comes first, the medium second."
Charles James
Fashion Designer
"Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth."
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"Photography is a generous medium."
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"The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever."
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"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one"
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"Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done."
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"I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium."
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"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
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"I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever."
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"Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor."
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"The medium is the message."
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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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"The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane."
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"If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost."
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"I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium."
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"When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium."
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"Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect."
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"Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock"
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"I love the idea of messing around with different mediums."
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"By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody."
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"It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do."
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"If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer."
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