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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does. -- Dan Rather
Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together. -- Matt Taibbi
The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS. It's being called 'Operation Approval Ratings.' -- David Letterman
Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last. -- Norman Lear
Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name. -- Jay Leno
They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings -- Capital STEEZ
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. -- Seth Klarman
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. -- J. J. Abrams
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities. -- Tom Brokaw
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. -- Ted Turner
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. -- Al Franken
I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend. -- Bruce Nash
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad. -- Dick Cheney
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. -- Peter McWilliams
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity. -- Pat Quinn
I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it. -- Flip Wilson
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans. -- Parker Stevenson
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good. -- Al Franken
My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself. -- Kim Kardashian
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis. -- Billie Jean King
Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. -- Brit Hume
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. -- Leo Bogart
No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted. -- Will Arnett
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. -- Norman Lear
You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week. -- Rob Sheffield
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for. -- Matt Taibbi
The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV. -- John Sununu
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them. -- Matt Taibbi
We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten. -- Dave Matthews
There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30. -- Larry Hagman
One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.' -- Kapil Sharma
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. -- Sean Hannity
I don't pay attention to the ratings. -- Martha Plimpton
I don't look at ratings until somebody tells me. -- Padma Lakshmi
I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings. -- Kourtney Kardashian
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings. -- Roger Ailes
The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent! -- Justin Timberlake
You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV. -- Van Jones
We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted. -- Trish Stratus
Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings? -- Pat Buchanan
The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over. -- Dawn Ostroff
We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings. -- Andrew Heyward
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings. -- Norman Lear
You don't need to make shows about sex and drugs and violence to get ratings. -- Mark Burnett
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. -- Norman Lear
I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate. -- Reese Schonfeld
Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011. -- Ron Fournier
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings. -- Matt Drudge
It's all Trump all day long [on CNN]. That's why their ratings are through the roof. -- Donald Trump
I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film. -- Takashi Miike
People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. -- Madonna Ciccone
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore? -- James Inhofe
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television. -- Dan Harmon
...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty. -- Nate Silver
I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good. -- Rick Riordan
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further. -- Jerry Brown
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? -- Robert Byrd
Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent. -- Craig Kilborn
President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States. -- Jay Leno
When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work. -- William Petersen
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them. -- Roger Ebert
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. -- Bruce Lee
Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers. -- Van Jones
I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff. -- Dan Rather
It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high. -- Amy Sedaris
Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC. -- Joe Biden
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on. -- Bob Schieffer
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. -- James Wolcott
First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that`s the good news. Check out the ratings. -- Donald Trump
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. -- Alex Berenson
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices. -- Jill Lepore
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. -- Seth Klarman
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings -- Paddy Chayefsky
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings. -- Will McDonough
I think they're more looking at these two candidates. It's a band of voters with which neither candidate has very high approval ratings. -- Bill Burton
The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC. -- Jon Foreman
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. -- Walter Isaacson
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. -- Robert Altman
Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants. -- Andrew Greeley
There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you. -- Rachel Maddow
I get ratings. If I didn't get ratings, they [media] wouldn't do it. They don't care about poll numbers, they only care about ratings. -- Donald Trump
I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation. -- Michael Schur
I have never fired anyone or kept anyone because of ratings or because of entertainment. I keep the people that I think are the best. -- Donald Trump
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The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad! -- Robert Stack
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings. -- Dan Gelber
Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. -- Timothy Noah
Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting. -- Paul Singer
An experiment had students rate lecturing professors with the sound off. Their ratings closely mirrored evaluations of students who went through the courses with the same professors. -- David Urso
I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls. -- Cristina Saralegui
I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue. -- Connie Chung
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation. -- John Thune
I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right? -- Bill Burr
Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show. -- Beau Bridges
Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened. -- Sam Tanenhaus
I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon -- Charlie Hunnam
I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited. -- Richard Thaler
The first day of spring is known as the vernal equinox. The equinox is special. It only happens twice a year, like a good night in ratings for NBC. -- Craig Ferguson
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance. -- Albert Ellis
That's another thing the #NeverTrump-ers can't figure out and despise. But the media did, too. The media was fascinated. [Donald] Trump was ratings. He was money, and still is. -- Rush Limbaugh
In fact the Hillary [Clinton] convention which did very well but not nearly as well as mine, in all fairness, would've gotten one-third the ratings they got if I weren't. -- Donald Trump
To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened. -- Matthew Dowd
Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to people with A credit ratings, making loans at competitive rates. -- Bill Dedman
People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching. -- Chelsea Handler
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings. -- Seth Shostak
There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business. -- Warren Buffett
I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period. -- Eric Braeden
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. -- Norman Lear
Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come. -- Julie Chen
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. -- Ben Edwards
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points. -- Barry Ritholtz
It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is. -- Steve Burns
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. -- Norman Lear
Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what! -- Jody Watley
But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world. -- Aaron Spelling

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