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Ronald Reagan on Making America Great Again

5m 55s

"How did I get over being poor? I got a job as a sports announcer and it led to everything else." - Ronald Reagan, as told to Bill Moyers on April 30, 1979.

Episodes

  • Jacques Cousteau on Atlantis and Cognac: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jacques Cousteau on Atlantis and Cognac

    S1 E79 - 4m 45s

    "We're going to investigate every single one of these hypotheses, and we'll tell you what we think is the truth about it" - Jacques Cousteau in 1978

  • Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols

    S1 E69 - 5m 25s

    "I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that." - Marlene Dietrich in 1969

  • Leonard Cohen on Moonlight: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Leonard Cohen on Moonlight

    S1 E74 - 5m 34s

    “I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something to say“ - Leonard Cohen

  • Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad

    S1 E68 - 5m 34s

    "It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron, in a 1975 interview with Studs Terkel

  • Frank Zappa on Fads: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Frank Zappa on Fads

    S1 E66 - 5m

    "I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do" - Frank Zappa on June 6, 1971, as told to Howard Smith.

  • Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life

    S1 E71 - 5m 22s

    "If God didn‘t want me to sing it, he wouldn‘t have given me the talent to do it“ - Stevie Wonder in 2005

  • Rod Serling on Kamikazes: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Rod Serling on Kamikazes

    S1 E65 - 5m 14s

    ”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly.” - Rod Serling in 1963.

  • Aldous Huxley on Technodictators: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Aldous Huxley on Technodictators

    S1 E70 - 6m 5s

    "If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled" - Aldous Huxley

    Interview by Mike Wallace on May 18, 1958, from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

  • Cher on Kitsch: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cher on Kitsch

    S1 E64 - 5m 39s

    “I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“ - Cher in 1999, as told to Benjamin Svetkey.

  • Martin Scorsese on Framing: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Martin Scorsese on Framing

    S1 E63 - 5m 20s

    "Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making." - Martin Scorsese in 1990, as told to T.J. English

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