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

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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still read more

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

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By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will read more

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren read more

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

by Ray Bradbury Found in: Television Quotes,
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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

by Ani Difranco Found in: Television Quotes,
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

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

by John Lennon Found in: Television Quotes,
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Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

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

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

by Groucho Marx Found in: Television Quotes,
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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is read more

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.

by Rod Serling Found in: Television Quotes,
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Television is a corporate vulgarity.

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

by John Leonard Found in: Television Quotes,
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