Television Quotes

• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Change, Media, People

  NY Journal-American, August 25, 1965.

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• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Modern, Good Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.52, RosettaBooks

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• Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

  David Frost

  Inspirational, Home, Humor

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

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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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• Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

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• All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

  Nicholas Johnson

  Wisdom, Educational, Teaching

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• What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

  Salvador Dali

  Dream, Wall, Eye

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

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• Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

  Michael Franti

  Ignorance, Drug, Radiation

  "Television drug of the nation". 1991.

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• Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Hate, One Love, Menace

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• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Night, Thinking, Media

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• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Drama, Dancing

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Surfing, Internet

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Literature, Hunger

  "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.

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• There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

  Nora Ephron

  News, Journalism, Reason

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.293, Vintage

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Political, Style, Democracy

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

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• Television is just another appliance- It's just a toaster with pictures.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Toasters, Appliances

  Interview with Reason Magazine, May 1982.

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• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  Art Buchwald

  Thinking, Stupidity, Wonder

  Art Buchwald (1968). “Have I ever lied to you?”

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• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Stupidity, Style, Needs

  "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", TV Series (1955–1962), 1960.

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• Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Different, Becoming

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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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, Watching Tv

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• Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

  Jim Henson

  Teaching, Want

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