Mudd's Quotes

#1. Yes, they're a little biased there, I agree. Mike smiles at this understatement, knowing as I do that saying they're a little biased in Mudd's favor at the Mudd-family-run Mudd home in Maryland is like saying cheese steaks are kind of associated with Philadelphia.

Sarah Vowell

#2. Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Roger Mudd

#3. Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Roger Mudd

#4. Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt.

Mel Blanc

#5. In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

#6. No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Roger Mudd

#7. For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

#8. And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Roger Mudd

#9. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

Bill Nye

#10. Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right?
-Yep
-What's the website for that?

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#11. The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Mudd

#12. What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Edward Sapir

#13. Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

Roger Mudd

#14. As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Roger Mudd

#15. I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

Tom Baker

#16. But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Roger Mudd

#17. The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

Roger Mudd

#18. Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Roger Mudd

#19. The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

#20. I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.

Jay-Z

#21. I was broken, and you put me back together.

Kass Morgan

#22. The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.

Tim Frick

#23. New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.

Dylan McDermott

#24. The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Roger Mudd

#25. When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

Danny Boyle

#26. Everythings so blurry
And everyones so fake
And everybodys so empty
And everything is so messed up
Pre-occupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl

Puddle Of Mudd