Television Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Dream, Wall, Eye

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

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• 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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• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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• Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

  Lucille Ball

  World, Recognition, Form

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• Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Art, Two, Gnats

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

  Groucho Marx

  Monday, Humorous, Inspiration

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• So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Heart, People

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

  E. B. White

  Running, Sight, Long

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• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Berger

  Wall, Shopping, Shadow

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

  Eric Sevareid

  Life, Ducks, Executives

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

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• Sex on Twitter can't hurt you - unless you fall off.

  Woody Allen

  Anniversary, Hurt, Sex

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• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

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• My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

  Jane Pauley

  Cancer, Medicine, Goal

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• I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Movie, Track, Acting

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• Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

  Marilyn Manson

  Change, Time, Media

  "47 years of Marilyn Manson: Has the society finally understood him?". www.radioandmusic.com. January 5, 2016.

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

  Fred Rogers

  Respect, Gun, Views

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Mistake, Thinking

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.27, Penguin

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• When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Fear, Caring

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Choices, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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• Leadership is an action, not a position.

  Donald McGannon

  Motivational, Leadership, Action

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• Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

  Art Linkletter

  Family, God, Good Life

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• There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

  Philo Farnsworth

  Funny, Humorous, Intellectual

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