Television Quotes - Page 6

• Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.

  Linda Blair

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

  Dov Davidoff

  Acronyms, Tvs, Strange

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 21, 2011

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• Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

  Carl Sagan

  Night, Doors, Sky

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

  Marilyn Manson

  Terrorism, Advent

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Years, Feel Good, Age

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• It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.

  Randall Wright

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

  Randall Wright

  Tvs, Influence, Behavior

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• Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Thinking, Attachment

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• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Jobs, Husband

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• Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sports, Sex

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• Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Poison

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• Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Weapons, Mass

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• Have you noticed that families on TV never watch television?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Watches, Tvs

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• I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Girlfriend, Discovery

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• I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Reality, White

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• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Mad, Water

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• There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Sex, Two

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• I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Guy, Surf

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• The more Discovery Channel you watch, the less chance you have of ever meeting a woman. Because it fills your head with odd facts that can come out at any moment. "Hello. Did you know Hitler was ticklish? That sea otters have four nipples? Wait - don't run away!"

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Running, Discovery

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• I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Running, Watching Tv

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Funny, Brain, Nuclear

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Night, People

  "Salad days for satire". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. February 8, 2015.

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• A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Sex, Giving Up

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• Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

  Susan Sontag

  Funny, Secret, Given

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.178, Macmillan

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