Best Television Thoughts
2972 Television quotes by 2047 unique authors
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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have…
— L. Tom Perry
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We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It…
— Rupert Murdoch
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To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
— Robert Teeter
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Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
— Darryl F. Zanuck
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My television is the tabernacle.
— Mother Teresa
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Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice…
— Jimmy Buffett
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The reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction: My son Aditya made Mohabbatein (2000), which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started…
— Yash Chopra
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
— Paulo Coelho
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We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it…
— Herman Melville
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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…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into…
— Janet Evanovich
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
— William Bennett
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[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back,…
— Craig Johnston
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It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.…
— Gore Vidal
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life…
— Esther Rolle
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I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
— Rocky Anderson
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Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.
— Mary Somerville
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One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from…
— Sacinandana Swami
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The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly…
— Huell Howser
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