Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be p

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And thats really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So its very different. Youre out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasnt that fascinating. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. – Sir Robin Day

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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. – Jack Paar

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On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window. – Dan Spencer

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Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world. – Astrid Alauda

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