Television Quotes - Page 2

• Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

  Clive Barnes

  People, Culture, Want

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• A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Technology, Typewriters

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  Jack Paar

  Mind, Program, Wrists

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• Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Each Day, Might, Lovers

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• What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Civilization, Magic

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• Podemos situar la televisión en su justa medida suponiendo que el gran invento de Gutenberg se hubiera destinado a imprimir únicamente tebeos.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Libro, Luz, Suponiendo Que

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• At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

  Deborah Bull

  House, Challenges, Opera

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• Lo extraordinario de la televisión es que permite que varios millones de personas se rían del mismo chiste y sigan sintiéndose solas.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, People, Laughing

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• In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

  John Green

  Inspirador, Divertido, Motivacional

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• When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Witty, Caring

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

  Alan Kay

  Communication, Warning, World

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• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Art, Passion, Entertainment

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.55, Bantam

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• Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

  Ani DiFranco

  Vida, Arte, Inspirar

  Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate

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• No se me ocurre nada más aburrido para el pueblo estadounidense que tener que sentarse en sus salones durante media hora entera viendo mi cara en sus pantallas de televisión.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriótico, Pensamiento, Alaska

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• I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Diversión, Años, Gente

  San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002.

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• Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

  Anna Ford

  Style, Faces

  1979 In the Observer, 23 Sep.

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• I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air . . . and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.

  Newton N. Minow

  Eye, Air, Goes On

  Speech before National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., 9 May 1961

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• Cuando la televisión irrumpió con fuerza después de la guerra (la Segunda Guerra Mundial), hicieron una pequeña encuesta en las escuelas preguntando a los niños qué preferían y por qué: la televisión o la radio. Un niño de 7 años dijo que prefería la radio "porque las imágenes eran mejores".

  Alistair Cooke

  Niños, Guerra, Escuela

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• Un profesional es alguien que puede hacer su mejor trabajo cuando no tiene ganas.

  Alistair Cooke

  Inspiración, Motivación, Positivo

  Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

  Peter De Vries

  Father, Hate, Waiting

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

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• Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Political, Tvs

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Wisdom, Peace

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• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Divertido, Libro, Escritura

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• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  E. B. White

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

  "One Man's Meat". Book by E. B. White, 1942.

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• All television is children's television.

  Richard Adler

  Niños

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