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A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

Steven Deitz

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Alfred Hitchcock

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Steve Irwin

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

Groucho Marx

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Gen William C. Westmoreland

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want

Clive Alexander Barnes

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

Johnny Carson

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper

David Brenner

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

Ann Landers

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Fred Allen

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.

Lee Lovinger

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

Bill Gates

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Theodore H. White

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

Laurence J. Peter

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

Daniel Okrent

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

John Leonard

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

Terry Wogan

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.

Dave Barry

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

Osama bin Laden

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.

Aneurin Bevan

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

David Ogilvy

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television

Bob Greene

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