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• Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

  Napoleon Hill

  Firsts, Cobwebs, Habit

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• While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.

  Mark Steyn

  Fall, Two, America

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• The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation.

  John McCain

  Half Time, Height, Faster

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• Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

  John McCain

  Hate, Radio, Bloggers

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• Just before I began doing this show [The Last Word ], a dear friend of mine, Karen Russell, asked me what I was going to do with the show.She meant how was I going to use this platform to do something important, something that I wouldn`t be able to do without an hour of real estate in cable news prime time.The K.I.N.D. fund is my answer to Karen Russell`s question, what are you going to do with this show?

  Donald Trump

  Real, Important, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don`t control the schedule of the networks. We have three of our debates that are on network television, and those are on Saturday nights. We have three other debates that are during the week. And unfortunately, broadcast network programming is less flexible than cable network programming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Night, Three, Schedules

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risqué for me."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Ideas, People, Majority

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can envision these tech companies as the underdog anymore. They're always presented as though they were these little guys who you should be championing - Facebook will overthrow the cable television complex, blah blah - but it's more likely they will merge with them.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Guy, Underdog

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Interesting, Looks, Baskets

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a male, I thought the female voice was so strong, unique, real and accessible to most females. In some way, shape or form, they felt like they could relate to it, on some level, because they went through some form of unspeakable horror like what Kilgrave did to Jessica [Jones]. That, in itself, is something that most people shy away from, even in shows that are on cable or in movies.

  Mike Colter

  Strong, Real, Unique

  "‘Jessica Jones’ Cast on Season 2 Possibilities, Sex Scenes, and ‘Luke Cage’". TCA Press Tour, collider.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Stories, Television, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting him]. Then I guess also meeting Ben Stiller. He cast me in the only thing I think I ever auditioned for and got: Cable Guy [1996]. And that led to us becoming friends.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Guy, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.

  James Patterson

  Summer, Thinking, Giving

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• I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

  John Petrucci

  Balls, Too Much, Telephones

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• When Jim Carrey signed on to star in [The Cable Guy], and then they asked me to produce it, I made a very brief plea to direct - which was rejected really as quickly as anything can be.

  Judd Apatow

  Stars, Guy, Made

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  Ali Velshi

  Real, Struggle, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Cutting, Guitar, Evening

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• I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  School, Phones, Cells

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• Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

  Nellie McKay

  Independent, Oasis, Radio

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

  Jann Wenner

  Photography, Long, Design

  "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

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• After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Sea, Half

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• You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Struggle, Winning, Phones

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• But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Phones, Media, Goal

  "Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles – An interview with Robert McChesney". Interview with Tanner Mirrlees, www.socialistproject.ca. August 9, 2009.

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