Color Television Quotes

• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Believe, Black And White, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

  Graham Chapman

  Philosophy, Black And White, Color

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• I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Future, Color

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• There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Color, Space, Example

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• Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Technology, Discovery, Color

  "Discovery of Doom? Collider Stirs Debate" by Alan Boyle, September 8, 2008.

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• I'd like to start off this show by asking you all a question, cause I don't know the answer. Uh, I lost my sunglasses and yesterday I went to the Sunglass Hut. Here's the question: Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25-inch color television set? I go to the Sunglass Hut. I see a pair that I like. I don't love them. I don't. I like 'em. $309.

  Ron White

  Color, Doe, Sunglasses

  "They Call Me Tater Salad". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.
  
  Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, School, Mean

  "Dependency and Votes" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 24, 2011.

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