Robin Day quotes
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“Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
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“I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.”
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“Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.”
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“I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.”
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“I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.”
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“Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.”
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“We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.”
-- Robin Day
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.”
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
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