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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kathie Lee Gifford

"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people"

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Gifford’s line works because it’s doing two jobs at once: acknowledging the rot in show business while refusing to let cynicism get the last word. “Sleazeball” is a deliberately tabloid-ready word, blunt enough to signal she’s not naive about power, gatekeeping, and predation. But it’s also a containment strategy. By reducing the bad actors to a type - not a system - she shrinks an industry-wide problem into something like background noise: unpleasant, but manageable.

The real pivot is the math of it. “For every” sounds fair-minded, almost statistical, as if morality can be balanced in a ledger. It’s a comforting structure for audiences and a protective one for insiders: yes, there are monsters, but the ratio is reassuring. The subtext is reputational triage. As a long-running TV personality whose career depends on relationships, access, and an air of optimism, she can’t afford a scorched-earth diagnosis. This framing lets her validate victims and critics without indicting the whole machine that made her.

The word “business” matters, too. It’s a reminder that entertainment is labor, not just art or glamour, and that workplaces carry workplace risks. Still, she steers toward the sunny testimonial - “decent and wonderful people” - a phrase that feels intentionally broad, like a morning-show benediction. In a culture that rewards hot takes, Gifford offers something older and strategically human: a public stance that keeps doors open while insisting decency is still the norm worth betting on.

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Kathie Lee Gifford (born August 16, 1953) is a Entertainer from USA.

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