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Television has been a constant presence in everyday life, informing, entertaining, and shaping how stories are shared across generations. It reflects changing cultures, technologies, and tastes while connecting audiences through shared moments on screen. The following quotes explore the impact, power, and possibilities of television in all its forms.   ◀ Back
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News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.
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TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream “first amendment” and “freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?
- James Rozoff
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The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand in the cold.
- J. Richard Singleton
Background Guy
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What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?
- Chuck Lorre
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For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Television
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A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
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The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
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All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
- Dan Harmon
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.
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I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
- Dan Harmon
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People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
- Jess C. Scott
Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.
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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
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Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
- Robert MacNeil
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All afternoon, all evening, I lay on the couch, wrapped inside a quilt of sitcoms, the same commercials stitching them together.
- Namwali Serpell
The Furrows
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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.
- Jimi Hendrix
Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
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A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
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As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
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Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
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News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.
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TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream “first amendment” and “freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?
- James Rozoff
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The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand in the cold.
- J. Richard Singleton
Background Guy
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What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?
- Chuck Lorre
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For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Television
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A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
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The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
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All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
- Dan Harmon
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.
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I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
- Dan Harmon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
- Jess C. Scott
Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.
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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
- Robert MacNeil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All afternoon, all evening, I lay on the couch, wrapped inside a quilt of sitcoms, the same commercials stitching them together.
- Namwali Serpell
The Furrows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.
- Jimi Hendrix
Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
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A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
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Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
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News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
TV pollutes our minds and dulls our senses. It is a babysitter that molests children. And yet those who are on the television scream “first amendment” and “freedom of speech”. How is corporate control freedom of speech? And what rights did our forefathers grant corporations, anyway?
- James Rozoff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it's sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand in the cold.
- J. Richard Singleton
Background Guy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance?
- Chuck Lorre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Television
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
- Dan Harmon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
- Dan Harmon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
- Jess C. Scott
Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
- Robert MacNeil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All afternoon, all evening, I lay on the couch, wrapped inside a quilt of sitcoms, the same commercials stitching them together.
- Namwali Serpell
The Furrows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.
- Christopher Hitchens
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.
- Jimi Hendrix
Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.
- John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.
- Dominique Davis
Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As Jake the Dog from Adventure Time says: "Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something.
- Emilie Wapnick
How to Be Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unfettered spaces scare me. I’m not used to scenes that aren’t in a frame. Looking at a picture inside a border always calms me down, whether it’s an ultravista or the real thing. It’s probably from all the TV.
- Izumi Suzuki
Terminal Boredom: Stories
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