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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
There are no plain women on television.
Anna Ford
Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
Noel Coward
Television is becoming a collage—there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
David Hockney
If it weren’t for Philo T Farnsworth, inventor of TV, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson
There was no sex in Ireland before television.
Oliver J Flanagan
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
Robin Day
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
John Lennon
First Published: May 31, 2014, 06:51
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