Watching Tv Quotes

• Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Dog, Home, Kids

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

  Meg Cabot

  Jobs, Yoga, Taken

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• Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Live Life, Television Watching

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  Nadine Labaki

  War, People, Weapons

  "'Where Do We Go Now?' Asks Nadine Labaki" by Nana Asfour, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2012.

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• I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Games

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

  Lily Tomlin

  Book, Television Watching, Watches

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• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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• In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Tvs, Couches, Spare Time

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• How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Office, Answers

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, America, World

  Sam Levenson (2016). “Everything But Money: A Life of Riches”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

  Callan McAuliffe

  People, Way, Tvs

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• The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

  Jack Canfield

  Reading, America, Tvs

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• What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Artist, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

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• The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

  Adam Carolla

  Reading, Book, Creative

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

  John Green

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin

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• Good weather all the week, but come the weekend the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot they complain, too cold they complain, and when it's just right, they're watching TV.

  Rita Rudner

  Weekend, Weather, Tvs

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• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, Technology, People

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• You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

  Dick Cavett

  Two, People, Tvs

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Brain, Information, Tvs

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

  Janis Joplin

  Years, Sitting, Tvs

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• If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

  Keith Green

  Reading, Heart, Godly

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• And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.

  Christopher Titus

  Daughter, Smart, Kids

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

  Jason Bateman

  Crazy, Thinking, Technology

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

  Heidi

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

  Lennie James

  Generations, Actors, Tvs

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

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