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Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

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.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

The Television is the monster of hell.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

"Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.