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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
Tom C. Clark
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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
Tom C. Clark
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A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.
Steven Deitz
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon
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When television is good, nothing is better. When it`s bad, nothing is worse.
Newton N. Minow
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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses
Lee Loevinger
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If it weren`t for electricity we`d all be watching television by candlelight.
George Gobal
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Andy Gates
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson
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The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?
Dave Barry
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn`t danced on television.
Erma Bombeck
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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
Chuck Palahniuk
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Ray Bradbury
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren`t. I don`t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there`d be peace.
John Lennon
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I don`t know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn`t. It`s like the way free speech doesn`t apply at work. You can`t just walk into your boss` office and say `you`re a fuckface and I`m gonna go back to w...
Jon Stewart
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Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It`s funny.
Mischa Barton
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Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Actors think the grass is always greener. When you do a play, you wish you could be making easy money doing a film, because you work your butt off on the stage. Then you do your television and say, `God, if I have to do this one more time, I`ll just go cr...
Christopher McDonald
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People ask if I watch my old movies on television. I don`t. I never liked a single thing I did.
Sally Blane
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Videos might have a limited audience in one sense. But on the other hand you could be reaching a lot of people that would never be able to come see you live. So I think they`re definitely an advantage. Kids today worship the television, so I think it`s a ...
Madonna Ciccone
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You are always away from home, as a film actor. Look at me now. You can be stuck in a hotel, several thousand miles away in a whole different time zone, and it is never glamorous. You can`t sleep, you put on the television in the middle of the night when ...
Bill Murray
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Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.
Chiaki Kuriyama
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I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O`Brian called me "hammy and overwrought". Now I`m looking back on it, I`d like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says, "You know, I n...
Robert Redford
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don`t bury our dead. When you think it`s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, "My father is an idiot."
Billy Wilder
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When I don`t have any work sometimes, a kind of thing sets in where my mind shuts down. It`s almost like hibernation. It`s not that I`m unhappy, but I`m not thinking anything. Then I`ll go and watch television. And after an hour or two, I`ll think, `You`r...
Christopher Walken
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