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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. Gary Ackerman

Broadcast, Game, About

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. - Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Milton Berle

Funny, Edison, Thomas Edison

Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation. Laura Marano

Bed, Own, Sometimes

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time. Yolanda Adams

Song, Lives, Helping

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' 'Silver Spoons,' Saturday morning cartoons, and 'Murder, She Wrote' while eating an insane amount of Stouffer's French bread pizza. I was sucked into it all. Jim Rash

I Remember, Saturday, While

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. Christiane Amanpour

Better Place, Our World

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

Habits, Like, Change

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections. Henry B. Eyring

Been, Almost, Political

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx

Very, Educational, Read

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time. Marianne Williamson

Take, Money, Bonding

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

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

Peace, Set, Everyone

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. Ernst Fischer

Aim, Thus, Mass

One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia. Robert C. Merton

Blind, Birthday, Date

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Steve Jobs

Young, Dumb, Networks

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. Lewis Thomas

Ants, Armies, Use

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

Eye, Watching Television

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' Naomi Wolf

Reports, Luck, Pioneering

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white. Anthony Bourdain

Very, About, Show

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television. Amy Jo Martin

Some, Social, Like

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife. Steve Irwin

Capture, Across, Enthusiasm

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. Thabo Mbeki

Computers, Here, Country

Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after. Roxane Gay

Other, Pursuing, Several

I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it. Summer Sanders

Movie, Some, Dot

It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television. Craig Ferguson

Very, Late-Night, Doing

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal. Justin Kirk

Play, Deal, Simple Life

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