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Richard P. Adler
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All television is children's television.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Dan Quayle
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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Ernie Kovacs
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Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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Fred Allen
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Television is the triumph of machine over people.
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William Gibson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.
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Johnny Carson
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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Marlon Brando
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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George Stanley McGovern
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The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.
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David Frost
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The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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Clive James
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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
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Andrew H. Malcolm
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The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
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Kurt Vonnegut
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One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Aristotle
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Said in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
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David Frost
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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Douglas Noel Adams
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A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)
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Fred Allen
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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
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Swordfish
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Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.
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Dave Barry
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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Victor Kiam
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What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
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Lewis Thomas
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
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Aldo Leopold
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
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Orson Welles
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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Rita Mae Brown
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
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Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.
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[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
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'Television' was the colloquial term. -- Spock
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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Clinton/Gore is to the presidency as Beavis & Butthead are to television.
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Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
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I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
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Television 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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I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.
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"Bother," said Pooh, as the cable system messed w/his television.
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"Kill your television." -- Ned's Atomic Dustbin
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
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"In our world, we too have cable television." -- TV's Frank
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"They're playing our tapes on a television station?" -- Joel
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"Television is not only furntiure, but generally tasteless in style."
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"I prefer to have life filtered through television." - Calvin
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"Bother," said @F, as the old lady caught him stealing her television
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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"Glen Cove." - Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show. - Yogi Berra
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"'Television' was the colloquial term." Spock
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"`Television' was the colloquial term." -- Spock
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"I'm not a doctor; I just play one on television." -- Sam Beckett
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"You have a time machine and you use it for watching television?"
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"He can't come to the phone. He's busy watching television."
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
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"Is he really doing this on television?" - Mother-in-law, Dinosaurs
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"And now the penguin on top of your television set will explode."
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"Bother," said Pooh, as he saw OJ on the television, AGAIN.
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"Television has a lot to answer for!" RoboCop
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"This isn't brain surgery; it's just television."
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There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging fr
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The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
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