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Your Quotes for 20 April 2006 - Television

The Radio Corporation of America displayed a working television set at the New York World's Fair on this day in 1939. The impact on society has been mixed, if profound. (I should probably make one disclaimer: I'm basing my opinion of television based on experiences of the past, I haven't actually watched any significant amount of broadcast television for several years.)

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
     - Cullen Hightower

Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
     - Ernie Kovacs

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
     - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx, 1890 - 1977

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
     - Nicholas Johnson

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
     - Samuel Goldwyn, 1882 - 1974

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
     - Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980

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