#levi

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. ↗

— Fred W. Friendly

#bellies #commodity #instead #just #like

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#few #growing #growing up #i #independent

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#audience #knows #life #more #television

I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. ↗

— Uri Geller

#because #bent #claimed #contraceptive #her

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#above #anybody #design #does #human

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. ↗

— Jack Gould

#always #come #reassuring #something #supremely

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#coming #downside #having #hope #i

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#documentary #england #example #for example #german

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. ↗

— Bob Greene

#been #hasn #like #many #national