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Portal:Television/Selected quote/1
| Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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| It is pretty amazing to go from being a print cartoonist to having a hit animated television show, although I secretly expected it [The Simpsons] do well.
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| There were two keys to the show [Seinfeld]. Our sense of humor is combustible together. There was no idea he [ Larry David ] would have that I couldn’t immediately get onto and say, ‘Yeah, then we’ll do that and then we’ll do that.’ We’re very combustible together. The other thing, equally as important to me, absolutely, if not more important, is we shared a relentless work ethic, both of us.
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| I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. And for the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be. But somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/5
| It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/6
| Television is business, and business is America.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/7
| Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/8
| When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about close personal relationships.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/9
| I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/10
| I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/11
| What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/12
| Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/13
| If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/14
| I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/15
| Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/16
| When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this little 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio 'because the pictures were better.'
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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 or 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.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/18
| Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/19
| Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/20
| In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/21
| Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/22
| The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/23
| The audience is never wrong.
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| There are now more TVs in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/25
| Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/26
| You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/27
| Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
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| Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than at each other.
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| People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals ... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
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Portal:Television/Selected quote/30
| I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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| Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
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