Watching Television Quotes - Page 3

• It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.

  Robert Vaughn

  Talking, People, Relaxation

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Steven Soderbergh Hints at Switch to Television". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 29, 2012.

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• My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always Out of the house! There was no watching television on weekends.

  Anna Torv

  Mom, Horse, Weekend

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• If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

  Joan Collins

  Television, Want, Retiring

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• If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

  Walter Mischel

  Retirement, Hot, Television

  "The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline" by Jonah Lehrer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I learned how to speak English watching television.

  Azita Ghanizada

  Speak English, Television, Speak

  "Azita Ghanizada Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• ...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

  Stephen Fry

  Games, People, Television

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.176, Random House

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• Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Reading, Personality

  John Eldredge (2011). “Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

  Alexandra Paul

  Thinking, Missing, Television

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• Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

  George Carlin

  Play, Mind, Television

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  Candice Accola

  Relationship, Sunshine, Work Out

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• I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

  Eric Church

  Thinking, Artist, People

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• I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

  Jane Lynch

  College, Television

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• Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Purpose

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• When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?

  Leonard Shlain

  Reading, Book, Meditation

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Jail

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• If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Television, Economy

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• Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

  Ellen Goodman

  Educational, After Hours, Television

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “Close to home”, Fawcett

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.

  Jill Scott

  Cute, Sweet, Acceptance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing
  pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

  Ann Richards

  Children, Airplane, Talking

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• If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

  Barbara Feldon

  People, Laughing, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

  Laura Marano

  Vacation, Bed, Television

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

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• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  Louise Hart

  Real, Communication, Interaction With Others

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• The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Book, Reading, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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