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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers
Television is the triumph of machine over people. -- Fred Allen
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation... -- Michael Franti
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -- Laurence J. Peter
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland. -- Newton N. Minow
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better. -- Alistair Cooke
They call television a medium because nothing's well done. -- Goodman Ace
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. -- Bill Hicks
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. -- Charles Barkley
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without. -- Paddy Chayefsky
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. -- Alfred Hitchcock
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? -- Rod Serling
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. -- David Frost
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. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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. -- T. S. Eliot
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. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. -- Ray Bradbury
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. -- Salvador Dali
Television wasn't prestigious. -- Dorothy Malone
Television is intensely personal. -- Jessica Savitch
Television speeded everything up. -- Ruth Handler
Television can only destroy. -- Paul Virilio
Television, I would say, -- William S. Paley
Television is a passivity. -- John Green
Television is a vast wasteland. -- Newton N. Minow
Television is simply automated daydreaming. -- Lee Loevinger
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. -- Dennis Potter
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena. -- Josephine Hart
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. -- Homer
Television leaves no external scars. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Television is completely another medium. -- Marina Abramovic
Television is the third parent. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I humbly apologise for reality Television. -- Cilla Black
Television isn't my career. Business is. -- Fran Tarkenton
Television deprives children of their imaginations. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Television is such an evolving medium. -- Chris Pratt
Television is democracy at its ugliest. -- Paddy Chayefsky
Television is a young person's medium. -- Bernard Cornwell
Television is such a mediocre medium. -- Elizabeth Montgomery
Television is bubble-gum for the mind -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television and I grew up together. -- Roger Ailes
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium. -- Dan Harmon
Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. -- Eric Kripke
Television, cable, features are always out there. -- Kyle Chandler
Television... is not a substitute for print. -- Walter Cronkite
Television has tremendous power over our lives. -- Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Television can be a very fickle place -- Megyn Kelly
Television is a weapon of mass distractrion. -- Larry Gelbart
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is where I cut my teeth. -- Idris Elba
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. -- Claire Danes
The Television is the monster of hell. -- Lester Roloff
Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics. -- Norman Mailer
Television's not going read stories to you. -- Kurt Loder
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, -- Fred Allen
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. -- Shimon Peres
Television is the box they buried entertainment in. -- Bob Hope
Television is the medium of the 20th century. -- Hugh Downs
Television. That's where movies go when they die. -- Bob Hope
Television will do anything for a rating... anything! -- Paddy Chayefsky
Television has raised writing to a new low. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. -- Terry Wogan
Television is for appearing on, not looking at. -- Noel Coward
Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down. -- Hugh Hefner
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. -- Graydon Carter
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country. -- William Westmoreland
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy. -- Richard M. Nixon
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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? -- Alex Turner
Television is face acting, and film is eye acting. -- Dominic Monaghan
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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy. -- Richard N. Haass
Television is a service, but it's also a business. -- Megyn Kelly
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. -- Noel Coward
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. -- Paul Erdos
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I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older. -- John Tesh
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. -- Kurt Loder
Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere. -- Mort Sahl
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. -- David Strathairn
Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world. -- Lucille Ball
Television is so much about continuing to work with people. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. -- Art Buchwald
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. -- Fred Allen
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. -- Steven Spielberg
Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not. -- Jim Henson
Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures. -- Mark S. Fowler
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. -- Paddy Chayefsky
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done. -- Bill Moyers
Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system. -- Lauren Zalaznick
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. -- Paul Fleischman
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone. -- Martin Freeman
Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. -- Christine Lahti
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. -- E. B. White
Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops. -- Megyn Kelly
Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium. -- William S. Paley
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. -- Jessica Savitch
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. -- Matt Drudge
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. -- Steven Spielberg
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Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy. -- Heston Blumenthal
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. -- Leonard Maltin
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -- John Lennon
Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. -- Wolfgang Puck
Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore. -- Tim Roth
On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. -- Marc Maron
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. -- Edwin Newman
Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children. -- Paul Weyrich
Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. -- David Caruso
Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter. -- Neil Oliver
Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. -- C. P. Scott
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. -- C. P. Scott
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. -- A. A. Gill

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