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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. -- Tom Brokaw
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. -- Juan Williams
Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man. -- Rob Brydon
Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey. -- Eddie Izzard
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. -- Ben Stiller
Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops. -- Lisa Lampanelli
Cable is a niche business. If you can own a niche, that can be a very strong business. -- David Zaslav
The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone. -- Andy Kindler
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. -- Elliott Abrams
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. -- Timothy Noah
How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers. -- Jeph Loeb
What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things? -- Scott Westerfeld
Pixar has announced Larry the Cable Guy will be starring in Cars 3 thru 6. Howie Mandel will be playing his sidekick, Mopey the Moped. -- Andy Kindler
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories. -- Kevin Spacey
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done. -- Kal Penn
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. -- Mark Twain
Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is. -- Diego Klattenhoff
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. -- Gillian Armstrong
Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks. -- Andy Kindler
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows. -- Daniel Gillies
Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts. -- Rachel Maddow
I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees. -- Robert Klein
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane. -- Amy Heckerling
Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. -- Alex Pareene
Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended. -- Andy Kindler
The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation. -- John McCain
The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling. -- Tom Brevoort
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally. -- Scott Westerfeld
Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them. -- Bill Buford
Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important. -- Darren Star
Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off. -- Robin Williams
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
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally -- Scott Westerfeld
Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic. -- Giancarlo Esposito
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different. -- James Frain
The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less - and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void. -- Jonathan LaPaglia
When Jim Carrey signed on to star in [The Cable Guy], and then they asked me to produce it, I made a very brief plea to direct - which was rejected really as quickly as anything can be. -- Judd Apatow
I talked to Larry the Cable Guy the other day. Larry's made more money than 10 people should ever make in a lifetime. He was excited because he'd gone over to the livestock auction and bought 20 new feeder pigs. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service. -- Virginia Postrel
Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy." -- Gabriel Iglesias
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. -- George Barr McCutcheon
What Cable is up to is not something that can be done quietly. It will raise the interest of some pretty important people and leaders in the X-Men community will have to step in at some point in the storyline. -- Jeph Loeb
Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me. -- Jasper Fforde
Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king. -- Bryan Cranston
Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right. -- Greg Giraldo
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there. -- Billy Gardell
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there." -- Billy Gardell
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to "?Twitter' transatlantically. -- Hans Rosling
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically. -- Hans Rosling
And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well. -- Lord Robertson
I moved recently and I moved my cable and Internet and phone service which was all provided by Time Warner Cable. And you know, I made a plan with them where they'd come sometime between summer solstice and winter solstice and I would wait. -- Eugene Mirman
President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal. -- Andy Kindler
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age. -- Michael K. Powell
I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Television, cable, features are always out there. -- Kyle Chandler
I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting. -- Bob Odenkirk
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. -- Ralph Nader
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. -- Emily Greene Balch
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business. -- Leslie Moonves
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news. -- Jann Wenner
There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit. -- Josh Charles
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials. -- Virginia Postrel
In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide. -- Jefferson Han
Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should. -- Al Franken
I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features. -- Holly Hunter
Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature. -- Nacho Figueras
We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read. -- Jonathan Grayer
There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it. -- Jamie Chung
I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. -- James Dobson
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' -- Jack White
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' -- Lewis Black
I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. -- Bailey Chase
We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. -- Brian Roberts
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose. -- Tom Bodett
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away. -- Marc Andreessen
People like reality; I think it's always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go to a coliseum and watch people compete against each other. I think networks and cable channels find it an easier way of producing and putting things together, because people will watch it and it's cheaper. -- David Charvet
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. -- Henri Nouwen
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!' -- Larry the Cable Guy
We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Everybody's got cable. -- Lewis Black
Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Jim Carrey
I really like cable T.V. -- Sally Field
I was cable when cable wasn't cool. -- Ted Turner
I kid because I'm on basic cable. -- Jon Stewart
Nuclear war would really set back cable. -- Ted Turner
On cable TV, they have a weather channel -- Dan Spencer
Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down. -- Hugh Hefner
Don't date a woman without cable (no cable, no SportsCenter). -- Vantile Whitfield
Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't. -- Scott Pelley
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. -- Jeff Daniels
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. -- Benjamin Franklin
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. -- Brian Roberts
The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television. -- Anson Mount
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels. -- James Purefoy
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV. -- Adam Driver
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. -- Christine Lahti
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film. -- Eric Stoltz
If you're watching cable news, you are going to get a distorted picture. -- Rush Limbaugh
One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. -- Jon Postel
I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest. -- Jerry Springer
I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network. -- Shawn Ryan
The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable. -- Susan Messing
There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television. -- Liza Marklund
I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies. -- Lauren Shuler Donner
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. -- Donal Logue
We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future. -- Brian Roberts
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel. -- Brit Hume
The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement. -- Emo Philips
The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues. -- Jeff Zucker
Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello. -- Stephen Chbosky
You might be a redneck if your coffee table used to be a telephone cable spool. -- Jeff Foxworthy
American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent. -- Robert Englund
I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious. -- Kat Dennings
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. -- Chris Wallace
The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care. -- David Frum
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice. -- Melissa Bean
Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors. -- Megyn Kelly
Comedy has been crossing the country with remarkable speed way before the Internet, social media, even cable TV. -- Chris Bliss

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