#tele

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#because #bores #i #idea #intensely

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#breakfast #colonel #come #elvis #five

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#dictatorship #impossible #made #television #unbearable

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#guy #luxury #more #playing #shot

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#film #goal #life #maintain #never

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#american #changed #child #force #immovable

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. ↗

— Tom Petty

#barometer #become #dangerous #dangerous thing #downright

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #nudity #television #values #violence