P. J. O'Rourke
Related GORDON B. HINCKLEY I was a witch with my children, truly, about television. I used to say you can watch a half hour of ... TERESA HEINZ KERRY Viewers of television are much more savvy about the inside mechanics of television and of show busin... JAMES PONIEWOZIK BILL MOYERS BILL MOYERS Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less ... JACK GOULD In this case, it seemed the video's circulation online was driving more people to watch SNL on telev... WENDY SELTZER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO TOM PETTY At any given moment, kids are more likely to be online than adults. Hackers know this and lure child... LARRY MAGID JERRY SPINELLI Women watch more television than men in general, ... So it kind of makes sense to come up with progr... SHARI ANNE BRILL STEPHEN FRY LAURENCE J. PETER Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talki... MICHAEL K. POWELL ERIC HOFFER JONATHAN KOZOL WILL SELF I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults shou... TODD BURPO The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it. KEVIN SORBO Kids that age are only awake 12 hours a day, so we have a generation of children who are watching te... DIMITRI CHRISTAKIS Nobody in this world thinks they're having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any com... DAVID FRANKEL BILL COSBY TED KOPPEL When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind t... GRETCHEN CARLSON [At the Old-Time Radio Convention, which expects 600 attendees this weekend, leaders have begun invi... ARTHUR ANDERSON ROBERT PINSKY Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
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Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. 
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. 
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. 
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laure... 
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, fro... 
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America'... 
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People ... 
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You just found out about it today. Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the rad... 
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to televisi... 
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. 
[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s... 
Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost ... 
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not... 
So this is going to be drill!? 
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On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ... 
The impact of violent video games upon children is not as clearly established as the impact of viole... 
Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. 
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, ... 
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do a... 
More than 1,000 adults and countless children visit the show annually. We always joke that a lot of ... 
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwitting... 
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written... 
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of ... 
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Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, a... 
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Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands... 
I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. 
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It'... 
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life. 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
There is always the easy way out, although I am loath to use it. I have no children, I do not watch ... 
Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... 
Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from v... 
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? 
I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the televis... 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. 
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. 
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. 
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to... 