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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Television

"After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots."

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Television

"There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?"

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Barack Obama Politician
Television

"In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere."

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Philip Roth Novelist
Television

"The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Television

"I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?"

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Ed Rollins Political Consultant
Television

"Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
Television

"I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts."

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