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Television
«Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.»
Author: Art Buchwald
(Journalist)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, lowest, program, television program
«Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.»
«For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.»
«He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
destroyed, television
«I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
actually, amazed, belittle, belittled, belittles, belittling, front, in front, savaged, sit in, stuff, television
«Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
alphabet, alphabets, chickens, disappointment, discovers, educational, forbidden, leap, letters, letter of the alphabet, royal, royal blue, unreasonable
«I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ?Beverly Hills 90210' and ?Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.»
Author: Paris Hilton
(Actress, Entrepreneur, Model, Socialite)
| About:
Celebrity,
Pets,
Superficiality,
Television
«Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Life,
Television
| Keywords:
television, think about