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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. Bernice King

Music, Culture, Video Games, Gun Control

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, Watching, Him, Owe, Candlelight

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

Best, Vacation, Pajamas, Hotel, Bed, Own

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

Life, Morning, Pizza, Remember, Eating

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, Everyone, Then, Set, Another

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, World, Finding, Long, Look, Meet

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

People, Media, Game, Hockey, Journalism

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Fred Allen

Technology, Well Done, Done, Anything

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

Good, World, Journalism, Believe, Better

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Salvador Dali

Dreams, Eyes, Man, Rise, Walls, See

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

Good, Library, Book, Find, Go, Say

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright

Eyes, Movies, Gum, Chewing Gum, Chewing

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

Business, People, Think, Dumb, Look, You

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

Time, Money, Real, Turn, Cultivate, Take

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness. Ravi Zacharias

Greatest, Single, Emptiness, Been

People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser. Ada Yonath

People, Hair, Me, Haircut, Free, Senior

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time. Tom Wolfe

Good, Technology, Time, People, Evening

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities. Meghan Markle

Father, Mother, Eyes, Me, Sometimes

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. Fredric Jameson

Music, Heart, Food, Culture, World, Down

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

War, Child, Information, Farm, Capture

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

Eye, Black, Watching, Paint, Your, Like

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing. Nick Cave

Music, Beautiful, Evil, Innocence, Rock

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, Gangster, Negative, Black, You

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. Lady Gaga

Time, Myself, Day, Me, Lonely, Feel

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. Steve Jobs

Technology, Best, Together, World, Think

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life. Henrik Fisker

Life, Car, Remember, New Car, Think, You

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