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We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac. — Marcellin Berthelot

We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity. — Paddy Chayefsky

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. — Paddy Chayefsky

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. — Edward Gibbon

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw. — Tony Romo

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn. — Anthony Hopkins

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple. — Karin Fossum

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning. — Paddy Chayefsky

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance. — Henri Poincare

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. — Paddy Chayefsky

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. — Paddy Chayefsky

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes. — Rabindranath Tagore

But there was nothing, and never would be. Learning that was one thing. Living with it, another entirely. Careful — Mick Herron

Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. — Paddy Chayefsky

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. — Paddy Chayefsky

Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious. — Mitch Albom

I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[ ... ]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value! — Paddy Chayefsky

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows. — Paddy Chayefsky

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero. — Paddy Chayefsky

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

Television is democracy at its ugliest. — Paddy Chayefsky

I'm a man without a corporation. — Paddy Chayefsky

I can get you a framed painting if you like. Or you could suck it. — Charlie Cochet

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived ... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! — Paddy Chayefsky

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore. — Paddy Chayefsky

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work. — Paddy Chayefsky

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places. — Bryant McGill

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. — Kurt Schwitters

You're not such a dog as you think you are. — Paddy Chayefsky

Television will do anything for a rating ... anything! — Paddy Chayefsky