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These are some of the best 'Television' quotations and sayings.


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All television is children's television.

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.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

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

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.


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