“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.
They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important… so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”
To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987) – Robert A. Heinlein Posted on 11/27/2017, 5:57:44 AM by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
-—Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign.
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all the world, I can’t help but cry.
I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
—Mariah Carey