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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.  Shirley Chisholm
• Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.  Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
• It’s the menace that everyone loves to hate but can’t seem to live without. Paddy Chayevsky
• Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he’s covered with warts and is only after her money.  Mignon McLaughlin
• Television – the drug of the nation, Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation… The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Television, the Drug of the Nation” (song)
• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts.  But I can’t stop eating peanuts.  Orson Welles
• Addiction,  The media,  Movies

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Television should come with a health warning

• Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon- general’s warning.  Alan Kay
• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock
• Take a break from media and television that isn’t delivering a positive message. The input you absorb is a heavy contributor to your health, or lack of it. J. Goldwag
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Too much television leaves the mind undeveloped and vacuous …

• Everything is for the eye these days – TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind.  The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.  Fred Allen
• Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. Malcolm Muggeridge
• TV is the place where the pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia. Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects. Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple… The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Television, the Drug of the Nation” (song)
• [T]elevision’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought.  And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze.  You don’t have to concentrate.  You don’t have to react.  You don’t have to remember.  You don’t miss your brain because you don’t need it.  Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally.  Apart from that, all is peace and quiet.  You are in the man’s nirvana.  And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind.  He probably hasn’t got the price of a television set.   Raymond Chandler
• 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 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio “because the pictures were better.” Alistair Cooke
• On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. Stephen Chbosky

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…  the body inactive and lethargic …

• Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
• If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. Joey Adams
• What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? J.B. Priestley, about Americans
• 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.  Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
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… and the spirit clogged and unfulfilled

• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.  John Piper
• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Bill Hicks

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Television blocks real connection and conversation; especially between families

• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Pearl Cleage
• The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone. Ashley Montagu
• Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers
• Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms. Alan Coren
• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic.  Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones.  Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.  Matt Groening, The Simpsons
• The marvels – of film, radio, and television – are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. Milton Mayer
• Connection,  Making conversation

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Television can disrupt natural sleep patterns

• Watching television or using a computer can interfere with sleep, so consider keeping screens out of the bedroom. Your mind needs to be in the habit of knowing that if you are in bed, you are there to sleep. Try not to use a computer within an hour of bedtime. Sarah Berry
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The great problem with television is that so much of it is bad, low quality junk

• Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.Jarod Kintz
• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? Samuel Goldwyn
• I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it?  Leo Anthony Gallagher
• Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done.  Ernie Kovacs
• They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk.  Gene Roddenberry
• Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.   Noel Coward
• We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Robert M. Hutchins
• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. Art Buchwald
• Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn
• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel. Gore Vidal
• All television is children’s television. Richard P. Adler
• Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.  Marvin Minksy
• In Beverly Hills, they don’t throw their garbage away — they make it into television shows.  Woody Allen
• 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 Barnes
• Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen
• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set. Harriet van Horne

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Television is not about truth but about boredom alleviation

• Television is not the Truth. Television is god-damned amusement park.  Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players.  We’re in the boredom killing business.  Paddy Chayevsky
• Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. Radiohead
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Television dumbs us down, especially our kids

• We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos?  Parents, don’t make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.  George Bush
• If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons. Daniel Marsh, 1950

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Much of television is “fast food” with no nourishment at all …

• television soap : chewing gum for the eyes   Bertrand Russell
• So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes…. TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. John Mason Brown
• I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don’t remember a single one of them.  John Barrow, 1973
• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W.H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand

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… full of sex and violence …

• The impact of violent video games upon children is not as clearly established as the impact of violent television programming. Young children possess an instinctive desire to imitate actions they observe, without always possessing the intellect or maturity to determine if such actions are appropriate. Due to their role-modeling capacity to promote real world violence, there is deep concern that playing violent video games, with their fully digitized human images, will cause children to become more aggressive toward other children and become more tolerant of, and more likely to engage in, real-life violence. Robert E. McAfee, MD.
• Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. Dave Barry
• If you came and you found a strange man… teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it. Jerome Singer
• Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language – and that’s just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. Donna Gephart
• Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. Gene Baylos
• Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart.  I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”  Dick Cavett, 1978
• The same media people that claim violence on TV doesn’t influence people, are perfectly willing to sell you advertising time.
• The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming. Bauvard
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… and non-stop irritating, mindless advertising

• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. R. Serling
• So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. Jason Love
• 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.  Alfred Hitchcock
• 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
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Even the news on television is mostly negative, sensational junk

• The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is deliberate shock. The more you accept it as the news, the more you believe that “that’s the way it is,” and the more fearful and cynical you will become. If we realized exactly how much vulgar, pessimistic, and manipulative negativity was deliberately packed into every daily newspaper and most television shows and Hollywood movies, we would resist the temptation to flood our brains with their garbage. Most of us are more particular about what we put in our automobile’s gas tank than we are about what we put in our own brain every night. We passively feed ourselves with stories about serial killers and violent crime without any conscious awareness of the choice we’re making. Steve Chandler
• The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley

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Television has become a modern distraction and anaesthetic

• That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial. Chuck Palahniuk
• Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. Astrid Alauda

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Television stops us from seeing, observing and experiencing the real world

• All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing  Peter M. Leschak
• On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up.  We called it a window.  Dan Spencer
• Perception,  Observation

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Television is an excuse not to face ourselves and reflect

• Reflection is in many ways a lost art. It is an eyepiece to a world hidden away, the world within ourselves which is alive with truths and beauties and darkness we have never glimpsed.  It seems sad that we slice our time too thin for dreaming long dreams and thinking long thoughts.  We’ve grown uncomfortable with that sort of thing.  For a long time I had been uneasy left alone.  I would snap on the television or grab a book or make brownies.    I suppose we are restless all alone with ourselves, all alone in a room with a stranger.  What if we face ourselves and find we don’t like the person we meet?  I didn’t even want to spend much time in prayer because God might confront me and I’d have to look at myself.  Sue Monk Kidd
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To watch television is to fall below thought into a state of non-awareness

• So when watching television, the tendency is for you to fall below thought, not rise above it. Television has this in common with alcohol and certain other drugs. While it provides some relief from your mind, you again pay a high price: loss of consciousness. Like those drugs, it too has a strong addictive quality. You reach for the remote control to switch off and instead find yourself going through all the channels. Half an hour or an hour later, you are still watching, still going through the channels. Eckhart Tolle
• Does TV watching create inner space? Does it cause you to be present? Unfortunately, it does not. Although for long periods your mind may not be generating any thoughts, it has linked into the thought activity of the television show. It has linked up with the TV version of the collective mind, and is thinking its thoughts. Eckhart Tolle
• Self-awareness,  Awareness

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The inventor of television is probably turning in his grave

• Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else… television would become the world’s greatest teaching tool.  Illiteracy would be wiped out.  The immediacy of television was the key.  As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras.  Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us.  Television would also bring about world peace.  If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings?  War would be a thing of the past.  Evan I. Schwartz, The Last Lone Inventor, about Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television
• If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. Johnny Carson

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Question what the television is teaching you

• All television is educational television. The question is:  what is it teaching?  Nicholas Johnson

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Watching excessive TV is a terrible waste of life

• Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Television is simply automated day-dreaming. Lee Lovinger

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Switch off your television set …

• I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.  Malcolm Muggeridge
• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. Jack Paar
• Kill your television! Paul Thomas Anderson

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… and take a break from television, even if just for a day

• Take a break from media and television that isn’t delivering a positive message. The input you absorb is a heavy contributor to your health, or lack of it. J. Goldwag
• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won’t be lost.  Kids will not run crazy in one day.  Lovers won’t stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going  to disappear.  Just take that one day and think.  Don’t read.  Don’t write.  No television, no radio, no distractions.  Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think.  Call it a healing day.  Maya Angelou

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Instead of watching television, choose to read books

• When I was your age, television was called books. William Goldman
• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today’s youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow’s leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. Richard M. Nixon
• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.  Raymond Chandler, 1946
• What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person.  Imagery belongs to another civilization:  the caveman.  Caveman couldn’t express himself so he put images on walls.  Elie Wiesel
• If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six.  Open your child’s imagination. Open a book.
• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. Roald Dahl
• The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. Andrew Ross
• If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed. Lily Tomlin
• Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on. Daniel Ehrenhaft
• Books,  Reading

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Instead of watching television, choose to embrace life and live

• If you’re watching too much television and you know it, you might find it useful to ask this one question: “Which side of the glass do I want to live on?” Steve Chandler
• Learn to turn off the distraction and live your life instead. Turn off the television and don’t read gossip magazines. Remove nonessential physical belongings that are robbing you of time and energy that could be better spent living intentionally. Joshua Becker
• If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own. Wes “Scoop” Nisker
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Instead of watching television, connect with real people

• 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. Chuck Palahniuk
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Instead of watching television, choose to relax and unwind in healthier, more effective ways

• Consciously relax. I’m not talking about taking a nap, or assuming the position of a couch potato in front of your television set. I’m talking about deliberately scanning each part of your body to reduce muscle tension and physical fatigue. Andrew Newberg
• Many people use the television to fall asleep or relax at the end of the day, and this is a mistake. Not only does the light suppress melatonin production, but television can actually stimulate the mind, rather than relaxing it. Try listening to music or audio books instead, or practicing relaxation exercises. Jeanne Segal
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Instead of watching television, go to the cinema or theatre

• Theatre is life. Cinema is art.  Television is furniture.
• I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. J. O’Rourke
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If you want to be a writer, turn your television off immediately

• If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug- wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea. Stephen King

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• There are films and television series that have expertly explored dark matter while stopping short of bathing in it for titillation: those, I applaud. Jenny McCartney

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• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.  B. White
• Whenever it’s on it’s like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won’t leave. I hate the sound of it.  All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture.  John Waters
• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.  Rita Mae Brown
• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. John Lennon

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• Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home. David Frost
• All television is children’s television. Richard P. Adler
• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett
• Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?”
• Color television! Bah, I won’t believe it until I see it in black and white. Samuel Goldwyn
• I don’t like sex on television… I keep falling off. Saul Feldman
• I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. Groucho Marx
• I hate television. In fact, some nights I stay up until 2 am, just glaring at it.
• The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.  
• I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I. Daniel Tosh
• I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die; I would have thought the obvious one was “Shout For Help.” Jimmy Carr
• I wanted to make it really special on Valentine’s Day, so I tied my boyfriend up… and for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV. Tracy Smith
• I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it?  Leo Anthony Gallagher
• I would like to be able to watch the evening news with my family and not have to explain what oral sex means to my wife. David Feldman
• If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. Joey Adams
• If it’s attention you want, don’t get involved with a man during play-off season. Rita Rudner
• If there are only two shows worth watching, they will be on at the same time. Jones’s Second Law of TV Programming
• Imitation is the sincerest form of television. Fred Allen
• In Russia we only had two TV channels: Channel One was propaganda, Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: “Turn back at once to Channel One.” Yakov Smirnoff
• It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art; now we have something to look down on. Billy Wilder
• Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen
• Marriage is like having cable with one channel. Nathaniel Stroman
• Men don’t care what’s on TV… they only care what else is on TV. Jerry Seinfeld
• Motor racing’s less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. Peter Dunne
• My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries
• My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday… so I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. Wendy Liebman
• Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. Gene Baylos
• Nowadays, the perfect crime is getting caught and then selling your story to TV. Alfred E. Neuman
• Oh, there’s so much nudity on TV, I just sit there shaking my fist. Stewart Francis
• On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel. Kitman’s Law
• Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless. Steve Allen
• Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD. Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark
• 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.  Alfred Hitchcock
• Sex on television can’t hurt you, unless you fall off.
• Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home. David Frost
• Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock
• Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn
• Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything. Fred Allen
• Television is a gold goose that lays scramble eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Lee Loevinger
• Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen
• Television is the triumph of machine over people. Fred Allen
• Television: A medium – so called because it is neither rare nor well done.  Ernie Kovacs
• Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet. Bill Watterson
• Television: A means of getting a babysitter so Mom and Dad can get out to the movies.
• The cable TV sex channels don’t expand our horizons, don’t make us better people and don’t come in clearly enough. Bill Maher
• The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
• The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley
• The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after; Forty is when you watch the TV during; Sixty is when you watch the TV instead.
• Then we figured out we could just park them in front of the TV; that’s how I was raised and I turned out TV. Homer Simpson
• Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language – and that’s just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. Donna Gephart
• TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. Goodman Ace
• Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. Dave Barry
• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison – if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight. Milton Berle
• When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV! Homer Simpson
• Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart.  I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”  Dick Cavett, 1978
• Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing. Samuel Goldwyn
• You know you’re working class when your TV is bigger than your bookcase. Rob Beckett
• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic.  Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones.  Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.  Matt Groening, The Simpsons
• You’re flickin’ around, all of a sudden – boom – you’re watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half. Dane Cook
• If television’s a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won’t shut up. Dorothy Gambrell
• If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. Erma Bombeck
• People are sheep. TV is the shepherd. Jess C. Scott

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