Watching Television Quotes

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

  Bill Hicks

  Inspirational, Funny, Eye

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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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• The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Depression, Average, Television

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Wisdom, Children

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• Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

  Marlon Brando

  Life, Actors, Television

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

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• Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

  Neil Postman

  Television Watching, Skills, Television

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.201, Vintage

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• Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

  George Will

  Television, Pastime

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Exercise, Different, Television

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.25, Robert Kiyosaki

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• I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Television, Wells

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?

  Marie Winn

  Children, Games, Long

  Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

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• The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Television, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing

  Jeff Zucker

  People, Television, Way

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• The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Book, Reading, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Uplifting, Media, Television

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• I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach. They're not working, and they're all eating, and they're all making phone calls, and they're all watching television. But they're not working. You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Beach, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life. ... But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Real, Giving, Trying

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• I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Reading, Television

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• Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

  Annette Funicello

  Black And White, Years, Listening

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• It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.

  Robert Vaughn

  Talking, People, Relaxation

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, New York, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

  Bennett Cerf

  People, Would Be, Television

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• Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex - and that's just in media space, watching television or reading newspapers, digital or physical. You see the brand in the context of the competition and bring it to the attention of everybody on a regular basis.

  Martin Sorrell

  Reading, Space, Media

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Thinking, Want, Looks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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