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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

Live Look World Long

In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.

Music Culture Gun Internet

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.

Life Morning Pizza Eating

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

Best Vacation Sometimes Hotel

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Electricity Watching Were Candlelight

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.

Business Look People Think

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

Good Library Book Find

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

Christiane Amanpour

Good Believe World Better

Things have evolved, and footballers pay a lot more attention to how they dress and how they groom themselves because of social media. So they'll be on Instagram or Twitter, and I think it's one of those things - you're in the public eye more, probably, than playing football on television, and your lifestyle at home is broadcast.

Daniel Sturridge

Home Dress Football Social Media

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.

Good Family Music Night

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If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I've felt like this for years.

Charles Barkley

Light Black Gangster You

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Single Emptiness Greatest Been

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

Dominique Dawes

Motivational Love Work I Am

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Monday America Intellectual Going

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

People You Window Treat

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

Funny Watching Him Owe Candlelight

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

People Way Movies Understand

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

Passion Capture Enthusiasm Wildlife

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

Ride Live You Energy

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Alone Time Reading Shy

There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.

Great Live Experience Look

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Look Greed Stock Market Talk

I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

Viggo Mortensen

Time Respect People Important

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Time Money Win Nobody

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Best Technology Together World

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Time People Entertainment Same

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