Randal Quotes

#1. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal

Harlan Coben

#2. A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis' body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#3. Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!

Michael Jackson

#4. To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

David Letterman

#5. As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

Merv Griffin

#6. This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

Janet Morris

#7. When I want to entertain entertainers, I call Jason Randal!

Norman Lear

#8. Randal is a lad of about twenty and two, curly-haired and distressingly cherubic in appearance."
"Distressingly? Really, Northrup, I cannot see what could be distressing about a cherub."
His brows drew in a scowl. "They're baby angels, for God's sake." As if this explained all.

Kristen Callihan

#9. Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Randal Marlin

#10. The specific media my change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

Randal Marlin

#11. All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

Randal Cremer

#12. The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.

Randal Marlin

#13. Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Randal Marlin

#14. There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Randal Marlin

#15. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Randal Marlin

#16. We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

Randal Kleiser

#17. Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

Randal Kleiser

#18. At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

Randal Cremer

#19. Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

Randal Marlin

#20. I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

Randal Kleiser

#21. To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.

Randal Marlin

#22. It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

Randal Marlin

#23. In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Randal Marlin

#24. Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

Randal Marlin

#25. When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.

Randal Marlin

#26. It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

Randal Kleiser

#27. Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

Randal Marlin

#28. When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Randal Marlin

#29. Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Randal Marlin

#30. When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

Randal Marlin

#31. Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.

Randal Kleiser

#32. It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

Randal Cremer

#33. If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

Randal Marlin

#34. We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

Randal Marlin

#35. There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Randal Marlin

#36. Those who have read my stories already, are the ones who were meant to read them.

Randal Licato

#37. I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

Randal Kleiser

#38. The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility.

Randal Marlin

#39. In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

Randal Kleiser

#40. Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

Randal Marlin

#41. In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

Randal Marlin

#42. The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

Randal Marlin

#43. There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Randal Marlin

#44. Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

Randal Marlin