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Quotes About Television

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.
~ Michelle Hunziker
You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.
~ Matt Lauer
Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
~ Aries Spears
Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.
~ Jay Leno
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.
~ Tom Brokaw
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~ Marshall McLuhan
When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.
~ Honeysuckle Weeks
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
~ Pauline Kael
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
~ Roone Arledge
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
~ Clive James
I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
~ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
In 2016, the sheriff in Bingham County, Idaho, told a local television station: "The majority of our rapes—not to say we don't have rapes, we do—but the majority of our rapes that are called in, are actual consensual sex.
~ T. Christian Miller
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
~ Tabitha Soren
Wy??czy?em telewizor, w którym cywile i wojskowi czekali na kogo? i nie mogli si? doczeka?.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
~ Tags: giving
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Hun himlet med øynene og viftet dramatisk med armene. Kommer hun til å gi etter for ham, og besvime i hans sterke armer? Eller vil hun sky ham, la ham subbe seg tilbake til Brizzie med halen mellom beina? Hun smilte ertende. Følg med i neste episode.
~ Tamara McKinley
In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
~ Tammin Sursok
The FBI is also investigating the numerous death threats against Dr. Laura herself, which began with the initiation of the gay campaign and ended with its success in the cancellation of her television show. References to her [Dr. Laura Schlesinger] opinion about gays and lesbians, and to the campaign against her, accompanied the death threats. Isn't that ironic? Individuals threatening to kill someone because they don't think she's tolerant enough?
~ Tammy Bruce
I love seeing other channels counterprogram the Super Bowl. PBS: "DAMN RIGHT we're airing a new 'Masterpiece Classic'! Fuck off, sports!
~ Tara Ariano
I got the famous Oprah hug!
~ Taylor Lautner
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
~ Ted Allen
I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
~ Ted McGinley