| "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 |
| "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end." Ursula Le Guin |
| "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." General George Patton |
| "When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad." E.B. White |
| "Each and every one of us is a show waiting to happen." Jerry Springer |
| "In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait." Les Brown, Television: The Business Behind the Box, 1971. |
| "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." Mileah Davis |
| "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Andy Warhol |
| "The secret of true genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldous Huxley |
| "Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending." Ted Danson |
| "Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot." Ogden Nash |
| "Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble." Benjamin Franklin |
| "The airwaves should belong to the people. If a TV signal comes trespassing onto my property, I should be free to do any damn thing I want with it, and it's none of the government's business." Anonymous, quoted by Charles Platt in 'Satellite Pirate', Wired magazine August 1994 |
| "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." Rita Mae Brown |
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