Cables Quotes - Page 2

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  Adam Driver

  Tvs

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Temptation, Television

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• The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Sex, People

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

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• She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Blow, Past

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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• Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Numbers, Fiction, Television

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• Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Adam

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• I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Media, Age

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• This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Past, Names

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• Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was

  Katie MacAlister

  Safety, Scarves, Body

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Real, Technology

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• Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

  Juan Williams

  Radio, Translate, Universe

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• Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

  George Herbert

  Law, Draws

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert ...”, p.107

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• you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

  Bryan Batt

  Men, Differences, People

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• The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

  Susan Messing

  Waiting, Rope, Steel

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• I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.

  Jerry Springer

  Sports, Political, Watches

  "Jerry Springer Talks Politics, His Show, And Why He Thinks We’re No Better Than His Guests". Interview with Mallika Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.

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• One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

  Jon Postel

  Home, Getting High, Way

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Essence, Promise

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism that is unique to him. This book gives the reader an insight into the sometimes absurd world of television sports. There is a 31st undeniable truth: Al Bernstein is a truly funny man.

  Barry Tompkins

  Sports, Growing Up, Book

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• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Kings, Ocean, Blue

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid”, p.4, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Heart, Mean

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• Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wikileaks, Diplomats, Candid

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• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  Felicia Day

  Smart, Knowing, People

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• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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