“The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!”
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“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”
“There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”
“The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger do you want to cut off first?”
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
“We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.”
“Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.”
“Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.”
“It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.”
“My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.”
“The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.”
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“I wish I had more hands, so I could give those titties four thumbs down!”
“One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".”
“Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.”
“In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.”
“Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.”
“I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.”
“If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.”