Quote by Raymond Chandler
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

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[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler

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Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. – Dirk Kempthorne

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Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. – Phyllis Schlafly

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I dont believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. – Eric Schmidt

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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. – John Hodgman

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