television
n. The shepherd of the docile human flock.
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n. Chewing gum for the eyes.
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n. A modern alter upon which intelligence is sacrificed.
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Cynical Quotations
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
— Clive James
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
— Shimon Peres
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Television has changed the American child from in irresistible force into an immovable object.
— Unknown
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Of what you see in books, believe 75%. Of newspapers, believe 25%. And of TV news, believe 10% – make that 5% if the anchorman wears a blazer.
— Unknown
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Why watch reality TV in a TV based reality?
— RayB
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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
— Hodding Carter
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
— Ann Landers
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
— Fred Allen
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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All television is children's television.
— Richard P. Adler
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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
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
— Unknown
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
— Ernie Kovacs
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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
— David Frost
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
— Edward R. Murrow
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Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked “brightness,” but it doesn't work.
— Gallagher
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
— Vincent Canby
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It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
— Martin Mull
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