Newton Minow Quotes

#1. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

Newton N. Minow

#2. What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

Newton N. Minow

#3. My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Misty Copeland

#4. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air ... and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

Newton N. Minow

#5. You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

#6. The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

Ferran Adria

#7. In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

Leonard Jacobson

#8. When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Newton N. Minow

#9. Television is a vast wasteland.

Newton N. Minow

#10. We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

Newton N. Minow

#11. It was so quiet you could hear a fly run into a wall. Everyone was staring at me like I'd just pulled up my shirt and asked for some beads.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

Newton N. Minow

#13. Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

Rita Mae Brown

#14. As desires drive a society's changes, they don't necessarily drive its best interests.

Wayne D. Liebhard, M.D.

#15. On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. "Why?" he asked. "Because," I said, "this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.

Newton N. Minow

#16. You couldn't see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

Sara Sheridan

#17. I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish.

V.C. Andrews

#18. A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

Joanne Harris