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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. -- Peter Sellers
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -- John Lennon
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. -- Andy Warhol
Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice. -- Martin Frost
I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home. -- Jake Busey
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set. -- Harold Brodkey
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set. -- Vanna White
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old. -- Bill Mumy
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? -- Warren Ellis
You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it. -- Vint Cerf
I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun. -- Sophie Turner
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. -- Harriet Van Horne
The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set. -- Bill Walton
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. -- Emma Watson
I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered. -- Jason Alexander
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground. -- William Scranton
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. -- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something. -- Mortimer Adler
Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set. -- Ben Feldman
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. -- Rex Stout
We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game. -- Leslie Moonves
My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal. -- Jane Pauley
My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do. -- Taylor Schilling
New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow. -- Jesse Schell
I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather. -- Red Skelton
There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television. -- Kyle Cassie
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. -- Ronda Rousey
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. -- William Holden
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe. -- Parvesh Cheena
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated. -- Joss Whedon
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color? -- Bobby Fischer
I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman. -- Bruce Baum
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set. -- Mindy Kaling
The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the set with your guns blazing and with a point of view. -- Bree Turner
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set. -- Robert Neelly Bellah
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone. -- Peter Farb
The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company. -- Louise Bernikow
I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools. -- Bennett Cerf

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