At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. – Barbara Ehrenreich
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the films future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. – Donald Pleasence
