Watching Television Quotes

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Wisdom, Children

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

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Depression, Average, Television

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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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• 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 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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• That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Night, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 20, 2017

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• This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

  Steven Spielberg

  Stars, Reality, America

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• When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  People, Doe, Watches

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Surfing, Television

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

  Robert Schimmel

  Heart, Television, Shapes

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

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• I do think this is where television is going, and I think that it's awesome to be a part of a show like this because we are these pioneers into this new medium. And it's working. When you look at the success of House of Cards and Arrested Development, which I love, this is how people are watching television now. It's pretty cool to be a part of this whole thing.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, House Of Cards, People

  Source: collider.com

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