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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
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GEORGE GOBAL If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
GEORGE GOBEL We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
MILTON BERLE We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlel...
MILTON BERLE Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
AL BOLISKA Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
AL BOLISKA If people werent so selfish, i would be happier.
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a...
GLEN CAMPBELL If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.
JAY CHIAT If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for tele...
JOHN IRVING Those who end their day by watching television rarely start it by setting up an alarm clock.
VIKRANT PARSAI Everything has changed since the 20s, 30s and 40s. We didn't have television or telephones or electr...
JOE CHISUM I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
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WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all ...
JOAN COLLINS If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why i...
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HENRY OLAWOYE All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea...
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CHAZ BONO Too strong of a light can be deadly to the one used to read by candlelight.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - cap...
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UNKNOWN Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
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MARK MAYS For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.
C. H. WEBB For I've been born and I've been wed. All of man's peril comes of bed.
C.H. WEBB Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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JILL SCOTT He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.
KEVIN BEARY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER We all love George Bush and follow George Bush, but everyone is looking for who will be next.
LINDA ROBERTS He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
THEODORE H. WHITE I learned how to speak English watching television.
AZITA GHANIZADA Too much television watching got me chasing dreams.
COOLIO Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
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GEORGE VECSEY If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.
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WALTER REED Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed.
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SPENCER ABRAHAM How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ...
KATIE MCGARRY Most of the guys were watching the NCAA Tournament (with Connecticut losing to George Mason). It was...
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GARY F EVANS... Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
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JAMES SWEENEY Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
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GEORGE GOBEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
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GEORGE HERBERT I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.
JANE LYNCH the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd to think to wed it, he is so above me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken.
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DR HITESH C SHETH I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
ADAM LAMBERT Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
BILL HICKS I was sitting at home watching five hours of television every afternoon.
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NANCY LUBLIN It is hard to believe that I'm here, to take it all in. Watching it at home on television is great b...
BRIAN MCELHINNEY It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the m...
JEFF ZUCKER Women watch more television than men in general, ... So it kind of makes sense to come up with progr...
SHARI ANNE BRILL If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
As though she bid me stay by her a week.
If sh...
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APURVA GAGLANI If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS it was found that the more often people report reading books, the more flow experiences they claim t...
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QUENTIN TARANTINO My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
JONI MITCHELL My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN