"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth."
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"The Simpsons is the best thing on American television."
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"The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent."
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"I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray."
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"Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie."
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"There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come."
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"Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery."
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"Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances."
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"I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book."
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"The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else."
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"Party of Five" won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
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"And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even."
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"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage."
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"Television is bubble-gum for the mind."
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"Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . ."
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"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."
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"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
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"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."
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"It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right."
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