Quotes
"We had our last table read and I cried puddles of tears. It's such a good group of people, such a great show. I get to play such a wonderful character. I'm so blessed and I'm sad to say goodbye, but we've been blessed to be on the air for nine years which doesn't happen anymore."
- Cobie Smulders, who plays Robin in HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, sharing her thoughts about the show's finale. CNN.
"The first time I heard about The Fosters was when my wife said, 'Did you know Jennifer Lopez is producing a show about two moms raising kids?' I said, 'That show is never going to go.' I was so impressed that they had the guts to go and pitch that show. Jennifer Lopez has been incredible - she had an aunt who was a lesbian and was not able to live out and proud. She believes family is family and love is love.
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- Joanna Johnson, Executive Producer, The Fosters
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We know the NCAA March Madness Live products are additive to the overall March Madness experience. Fans are more passionate and consume more game action when they are enabled to watch games anywhere, anytime, across many platforms and devices. Digital viewership is up in 2014 with more eyeballs, streams and hours consumed, while at the same time, television consumption continues to grow. It’s become clear that digital and television can both exist and complement each other giving fans the ability to experience the “madness” any way they want. "
- Mark Johnson, Vice President of Business Operations for NCAA Digital at Turner Sports.
"Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming and we have a chance to build it together. I can't wait to start working with the whole team at Oculus to bring this future to the world, and to unlock new worlds for all of us."
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's purchase of Oculus VR. Posted on Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
"In 2002 I optioned a feature film script...it was by a recent USC film school grad and was a beautifully written, elliptical story set in East Los Angeles. All the lead characters were Latino but I didn’t think much about this particular aspect. I had no idea of the challenges that lay ahead since I would later learn this project would be deemed a 'Latin film.'"
- Lynnette Ramirez, Vice President, Programming NUVO TV in today's Cynsiders column
"Women around the world really are making huge use of digital media in every way. It’s helpful to women because you can get information anywhere and you’re also safe…you don’t have to go out in the street which is sometimes dangerous. And because the majority of non literate people – about 70% - are women it’s very helpful to have a kind of YouTube access to information. However, all these things are just the medium. The question is, 'What is the message?'. So to the extent that we can craft the message, it’s helpful. To the extent that it’s still the same old message, it’s a problem.
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- Gloria Steinem, on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Excerpted from an interview with Beet.TV.
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The Good Wife, at its heart, is the “Education of Alicia Florrick.” To us, there always was a tragedy at the center of Will and Alicia’s relationship: the tragedy of bad timing. And when faced with the gut punch of Josh Charles's decision, made over a year ago, to move on to other creative endeavors, we had a major choice to make. We, like you, mourn the loss of Will Gardner. And while Will is gone, our beloved Josh is very much alive and remains an integral part of our family."
- Robert and Michelle King, creators of The Good Wife, in a letter to their fans about last night's episode.
"We now have a court order. We will wipe out Twitter… I don't care what the international community says. They will see the Turkish republic's strength."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, who is moving to block Twitter in reponse to a series of anti-government protests. March 20, 2104.
"Today is the first day of spring and I’m guessing you’re more than ready for it. This winter has been bad. No matter where you live in the U.S. you have experienced crazy weather. Crazy how cold it has been – Chicago had its third coldest winter on record; crazy how much snow there has been – NYC has had its fifth snowiest winter on record with 258% more snow than average for the city; and crazy how this is impacting your life. It doesn’t take a meteorologist to tell you that with warmer weather, it can only get better from here.
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- Eric Hadley, senior vice president, sales strategy & marketing, The Weather Company in today's Cynsiders column.
"Every day, each one of us has many choices about whether to lift people around us up or tear them down...
For most of us, those choices are local in nature - people we know or meet, interact with face to fact, one on one...But for some of us, those choices loom larger, in the social software and systems we design, build, report on, advertise on , fund."
- Marc Andreesen, venture capitalist, in a series of tweets on twitter @pmarca
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