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How to use the word teleVision in a Sentence? Page #23

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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

Fred Allen

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Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Fred Allen

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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Marlon Brando

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson

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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carter

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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Noel Coward

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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

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The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

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Television has raised writing to a new low.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Clive James

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What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

Victor Kiam

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Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs

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A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.

Aldo Leopold

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The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Andrew H. Malcolm

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The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.

George Stanley McGovern

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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

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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 labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Orson Welles

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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Vincent Canby

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