“Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.”
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“The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.”
“My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.”
“Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.”
“If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.”
“I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.”
“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”
“I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.”
“We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus... That is really an important job.”
“If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.”
“Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.”
“It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.”
“Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.”
“Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.”
“The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.”
“You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.”
“Cult films last forever. I have been in plenty of films that no one will remember, so it is nice to be in some movies that some people do, and that they pass it along to the next generation I'm meeting kids named Ash now.”
“We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.”
“It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.”
“I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.”