I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. Linda Ellerbee More Quotes by Linda Ellerbee More Quotes From Linda Ellerbee in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience. Linda Ellerbee news doe television When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section. Linda Ellerbee news accomplishment sports A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!" Linda Ellerbee yelling dog play It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television. Linda Ellerbee nuclear brain funny Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go. Linda Ellerbee Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest. Linda Ellerbee guests tables life I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying. Linda Ellerbee trying two people The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake. Linda Ellerbee rain mistake long Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young. Linda Ellerbee youth like-you change I think laughter may be a form of courage. Linda Ellerbee laughter may thinking Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel. Linda Ellerbee temperature how-you-feel feels Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. Linda Ellerbee believe lying people When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something. Linda Ellerbee colonels anchorman uniforms The new national campfire - radio. Linda Ellerbee campfire radio 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone? Linda Ellerbee government mean america I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world. Linda Ellerbee abortion choices world Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow. Linda Ellerbee wire long people We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money. Linda Ellerbee news media doe I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it. Linda Ellerbee tomorrow change believe It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks. Linda Ellerbee cheerleading basketball games
