"I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses."
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"I think people watch TV to escape from life."
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"The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch."
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"I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online."
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"It's still difficult for me to watch my work."
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"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."
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"When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back."
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"I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula]."
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"Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change."
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"I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before."
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"I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now."
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"they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes."
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"Do something every single day that scares you...and then watch growth happen."
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"It's hard to do, but I think it's really important to go back and watch yourself."
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"Don't just look at buildings ... watch them."
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"I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors."
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"The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company."
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"Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch."
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"Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters."
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"I think you have to write what you want to watch."
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