Portal:Radio/Selected quote/3
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Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/9
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/12
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Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/13
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When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/17
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Radio was the greatest training ground. You had to be very quick and you had to be very versatile... and you were surrounded by such wonderful actors.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/21
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/22
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With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/25
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Radio tried everything, and it all worked. It invented a new kind of singer whose voice wasn't even loud enough to carry across a hotel bedroom, and Americans, as it turned out, would rather hear these "crooners" than any big-bellied tenor who ever shook an opera house chandelier.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/28
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/29
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The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
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Portal:Radio/Selected quote/30
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When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
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