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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. -- Henry Rollins
[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film. -- Norm MacDonald
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland. -- Richey Edwards
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bernard Williams
You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised. -- Brian Lamb
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. -- Marilyn Manson
I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red. -- David Letterman
I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised. -- Jai Rodriguez
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. -- John Sununu
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night. -- William H. Macy
If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing. -- Howard Bach
Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing. -- Sanya Richards-Ross
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. -- Robert Gottlieb
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. -- Susan Estrich
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded. -- Alan Moore
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. -- John Scalzi
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. -- Augusten Burroughs
If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail. -- Casey Wilson
The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. -- Mark Hoppus
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming. -- Peter Camejo
Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house. -- Sharon Horgan
When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not. -- Sue Wicks
Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.' -- Steve Winwood
Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA. -- Seth Shostak
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years. -- Joel Osteen
I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field. -- Rick Wakeman
The revolution will not be televised. -- Gil Scott-Heron
There just isn't enough televised Chess -- David Letterman
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. -- Richard Helms
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart. -- Noah Levine
We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show. I always felt we should have joined Actors Equity -- Peter Lisagor
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues -- Sugar Ray Leonard
The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane. -- Ken Danby
A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture. -- Spiro T. Agnew
At least watching dirty movies can be kind of fascinating if they aren't too horribly strange. And even the horribly strange ones are still more interesting than televised sports. -- Merrill Markoe
Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp. -- Jeffrey Deitch
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them. -- Wendy Kaminer
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. -- Ann Coulter
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion? -- Giles Smith
A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event. -- Tamara Mellon
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts. -- Joe McGinniss
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself. -- Kenneth Turan

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