Television is for appearing on—not for looking at.

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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.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

—David Brinkley

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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.

—Groucho Marx

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Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

—Robert Bresson

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History

7 Apr 2014 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

Television is for appearing on — not for looking at.