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TV - remote control remote control viewer.
Victor Pelevin

In a battle between ears and eyes, the eyes always win.
Michael Deaver, White House Chief of Public Affairs

Television is just automated daytime dreams.
Lee Lovinger


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Nothing is real until it's shown on television.
Daniel Burstin

CNN is the sixteenth member of the Security Council.
Madeleine Albright

If they don't show it on TV, no one will know; if they show, everyone will forget in two days.
Alexander Privalov

Television has made dictatorship impossible and democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres

Television has elevated the production of the banal from a craft to a major industry.
Nathalie Sarrot

The movie screen is viewed from the bottom up, the TV screen is viewed from the top down.
Jean Luc Godard

Theater is life; cinema is an art; television is furniture.
American saying

It takes years of hard work to finally bore the public; but on television, this can be achieved in a couple of weeks.
Walter Slezak

Pornography and TV cooking shows have spawned two new spectator sports.
Mason Cooley

Reality TV has the same relation to reality as an inflatable mistress has to love.
Philippe Bouvard

It's not as hard to write TV jokes as it is to listen.
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It's the same with television as it is with hamburgers: I ate a lot of them, but I don't remember a single one.
John Barrow

In the smallest bookshop you will find more worthwhile thoughts than have been expressed on all TV channels in the history of its existence.
Andrew Ross

Violence on TV encourages to destroy everything in the world - alas, except for the TV.
Philip Gelyuk

It's scary to imagine what would happen if television really became good. It would be the end of everything we hold dear.
Marvin Lee Minsky

Television is democracy in all its ugliness.
P. Chaevski

Television is an invention that allows you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't let into your house.
D. Frost

Television is the best proof that people are ready to watch anything, just not to look at each other.
E. Landers

Television is an open window to the world, into which one sometimes wants to jump out.
A. Knyshev

Television is an entertainment medium that allows millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and still be lonely.
T. Eliot

Television is the triumph of technology over people.
F. Allen

Television is a device that allows those who have nothing to do to look at those who cannot do anything.
F. Allen

Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture accessible to everyone and completely determined by what people want. The worst thing is just what people want.
K. Varne

Television has brought the world closer to us, which shields us from the TV.
X. Jagodzinsky

Television belongs to the people. It serves him right.
M. Arbatova

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Sh. Perez

Television is like life - you never get what you want.
E. Mackenzie

Television allows us to enjoy the company of people whom we would not let on our doorstep.
D. Frost

Thanks to television, we know that if a person has lost his voice, he cannot speak, but he may well sing.
E. Mackenzie

TV is the stabilizer of family relationships.
V. Zubkov

TV is a sleeping pill plugged into an outlet.
E. Mackenzie

Television serves as proof that people are ready to watch anything, just not to look at each other.
Ann Landers

Television is when people who have nothing to do look at people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen

Television allows us to enjoy the company of people whom we would not let on our doorstep.
David Frost

Television is more interesting than people. Otherwise, people would be standing in the corners of our rooms, not televisions.
Alan Coren

Television is a device that gives you the ability to do nothing when you have nothing to do.
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Television is democracy at its most ugly.
Paddy Chayevsky

Television is a great thing; it allows you to watch spectacles that are not worth going to see.
"Pshekrui"

Television is a real miracle: now a person needs to wake up in order to go to bed.
author unknown

Television is the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the unprivileged, the elite club for people from the crowd.
Lee Lovinger

Television in its current form is the opium of the American people.
Richard Nixon

Television has done a lot for psychiatry, both by spreading the word about it and by raising the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Television was created in your image and likeness.
Petr Shulkin

Does television portray us as idiots because we are, or do we become idiots because television portrays us as such?
Boris Krieger

Television has brought the world closer to us, which shields us from the TV.
Henryk Jagodzinsky

Even the brightest woman loses in comparison with the TV.
Gennady Malkin

TV kinescopes are the condoms of reality.
Dieter Hildebrandt

The good thing about modern media is that it gives us the ability to grumble on a global scale.
Lawrence Peter

TV is the longest amateur show in history.
Robert Carson

TV can only replace a TV with an even larger screen.
Arkady Davidovich

Television is cheap and vulgar entertainment.
Winston Churchill

To educate means to develop immunity to television.
Marshall McLuhan

A moral core without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without a moral core is television.
Rita Mae Brown

It is not true that television makes people think; it simply focuses their thoughtlessness.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Television was invented to give the illiterate a reason to wear glasses.
Gabriel Laub

According to the latest scientific data, the higher the level of intelligence, the less a person watches TV. In my opinion, the opposite is true: the more you watch TV, the lower your level of intelligence.
Robert Orben

Editor on TV script: “We don't need it to be good. We need it to be on Thursday."
Dennis Norden

Television exists to perform on it, not to watch it.
Noel Coward

Never miss an opportunity to have sex or be on TV.
Gore Vidal

Two of the greatest inventions in history: typography, which brought us to books, and television, which took us away from them.
Georges Elgosy

The TV's biggest flaw is that it doesn't have a second page.
Art Buchwald

Violence on the TV screen and on the newspaper page - things are different. Newspapers report violence, TV produces it.
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I don't watch TV because it has a detrimental effect on the art of talking about myself.
Stephen Fry

I don't have a TV, but I'm not an intellectual.
Unknown French

Television makes us more educated. When I see the TV on, I go into the next room and start reading.
Groucho Marx

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. Try to stop when you're chewing on peanuts.
Orson Welles

Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left to broadcasters.
Anthony Benn

TV - remote control viewer.

Victor Pelevin

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Television has elevated the production of the banal from a craft to a major industry.

Nathalie Sarrot

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Television is the triumph of technology over people.

F. Allen

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Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture accessible to everyone and completely determined by what people want. The worst thing is just what people want.

K. Varne

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Nothing is real until it's shown on television.

Daniel Burstin

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Television is an invention that allows you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't let into your house.

D. Frost

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Television is the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the elite club for people from the crowd.

Lee Lovinger

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Television is democracy in all its ugliness.

P. Chaevski

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TV can only replace a TV with an even larger screen.

Arkady Davidovich

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Television has made dictatorship impossible and democracy unbearable.

Shimon Peres

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Television is an open window to the world, into which one sometimes wants to jump out.

A. Knyshev

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Television belongs to the people. It serves him right.

M. Arbatova

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It takes years of hard work to finally bore the public, but on television this can be achieved in a couple of weeks.

Walter Slezak

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Violence on TV encourages to destroy everything in the world - alas, except for the TV.

Philip Gelyuk

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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. Try to stop when you're chewing on peanuts.

Orson Welles

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TV is a sleeping pill plugged into an outlet.

E. Mackenzie

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The TV's biggest flaw is that it doesn't have a second page.

Art Buchwald

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The good thing about modern media is that it gives us the ability to grumble on a global scale.

Lawrence Peter

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In a battle between ears and eyes, the eyes always win.

Michael Deaver

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Television in its current form is the opium of the American people.

Richard Nixon

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I don't watch TV because it has a detrimental effect on the art of talking about myself.

Stephen Fry

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Television is the best proof that people are ready to watch anything, just not to look at each other.

E. Landers

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According to the latest scientific data, the higher the level of intelligence, the less a person watches TV. In my opinion, the opposite is true: the more you watch TV, the lower your level of intelligence.

Robert Orben

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Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left to broadcasters.

Anthony Benn

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Television is more interesting than people. Otherwise, people would be standing in the corners of our rooms, not televisions.

Alan Coren

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Television is democracy at its most ugly.

Paddy Chayevsky

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Television allows us to enjoy the company of people whom we would not let on our doorstep.

D. Frost

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In the smallest bookshop you will find more worthwhile thoughts than have been expressed on all TV channels in the history of its existence.

Andrew Ross

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Never miss an opportunity to have sex or be on TV.

Gore Vidal

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The movie screen is viewed from the bottom up, the TV screen is viewed from the top down.

Jean Luc Godard

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CNN is the sixteenth member of the Security Council.

Madeleine Albright

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Television was created in your image and likeness.

Petr Shulkin

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Television is an entertainment medium that allows millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and still be lonely.

T. Eliot

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Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Sh. Perez

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TV kinescopes are the condoms of reality.

Dieter Hildebrandt

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Television exists to perform on it, not to watch it.

Noel Coward

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Television is like life, you never get what you want.

E. Mackenzie

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TV stabilizer of family relationships.

V. Zubkov

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It's the same with television as it is with hamburgers: I ate a lot of them, but I don't remember a single one.

John Barrow

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I don't have a TV, but I'm not an intellectual.

Unknown French

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Reality TV has the same relation to reality as an inflatable mistress has to love.

Philippe Bouvard

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Two of the greatest inventions in history: typography, which brought us to books, and television, which took us away from them.

Georges Elgosy

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It's scary to imagine what would happen if television really became good. It would be the end of everything we hold dear.

Marvin Lee Minsky

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If it is not shown on TV, no one will know anything; if it is shown, everyone will forget in two days.

Alexander Privalov

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It is not true that television stops people from thinking, it simply focuses their thoughtlessness.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Television is just automated daytime dreams.

Lee Lovinger

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Television is a device that allows those who have nothing to do to look at those who cannot do anything.

F. Allen

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Television makes us more educated. When I see the TV on, I go into the next room and start reading.

Groucho Marx

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Editor on TV script: “We don't need it to be good. We need it to be on Thursday."

Dennis Norden

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Pornography and TV cooking shows have spawned two new spectator sports.

Mason Cooley

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Television serves as proof that people are ready to watch anything, just not to look at each other.

Ann Landers

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Television has brought the world closer to us, which shields us from the TV.

X. Jagodzinsky

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Even the brightest woman loses in comparison with the TV.

Gennady Malkin

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Thanks to television, we know that if a person has lost his voice, he cannot speak, but he may well sing.

E. Mackenzie

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TV is the longest amateur show in history.

Robert Carson

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To educate means to develop immunity to television.

Marshall McLuhan

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Television is when people who have nothing to do look at people who can't do anything.

Fred Allen

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Television is a real miracle: now a person needs to wake up in order to go to bed.

Richard Milhouse Nixon

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After television, you can already manage anything, even the state.

Sergei Blagovolin

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The writer has not disappeared because of television, but the reader has disappeared.

Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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TV is a garbage chute running in reverse side.

Lev Landau

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TV spoils everyone: on both sides of the screen.

Konstantin Melikhan

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A moral core without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without a moral core is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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Television is the greatest drug of repression. The control of programs, the typicality of programs, the repetition of programs inevitably make it an instrument of suppression, zombification and manipulation.

Terence McKenna

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What is the beauty of TV? It is so easy to silence any politician, even the president himself.

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

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Television is cheap and vulgar entertainment.

Winston Churchill

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It can teach and enlighten and even inspire, but only as long as people use it appropriately. Otherwise, it's nothing more than a box of wires and light bulbs.

Edward Marow

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To educate means to develop immunity to television.

Marshall McLuhan

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I must say that the television network dries up its own garbage, grinds it up and distributes it in equal doses through home TVs among its users. And here, when these insights and information came to me, I remembered the remarkable witticism of the outstanding Soviet physicist Lev Davydovich Landau, who claimed that the TV is a garbage chute that works in the opposite direction. The witticism, of course, is sweet, but it turns out that often scientific insights turn into reality!

Sergey Esina

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Television is when people who have nothing to do look at people who can't do anything.

Fred Allen

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TV can only replace a TV with an even larger screen.

Arkady Davidovich

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How can I convince the stubborn Nastya?! - Nastya wants to go to the cinema - like Saturday, - Nastya insists that I was filled with passion For a stupid box for an idiot. Yes, I was inspired - I’ll go into the apartment, Look - Nixon and Georges Pompidou are at home! .. - From the song “There is a TV ...” (1972)

Vladimir Vysotsky

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Television has a huge educational value. It teaches you, when you are young, how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) plunder, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, in general, (f) how to grow into a criminal or bandit. West by the time of graduation.

George Mikesh

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Do a good deed - turn off television for ten years!

Georges Elg

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I was thinking all night yesterday. Why? The TV is broken.

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