Top 1200 American Television Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

There is some stuff on television that is shocking that it's on there, and shocking that it's not being censored. We run to that with torches and pitchforks and go after it. On Flavor Of Love, when a woman took a dump on the stairs, I mean, that's like J.R. being shot on Dallas, or like maybe the last episode of M*A*S*H. It's a milestone on television that's covered with chlamydia.

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history. Those of us who teach American Religion have a responsibility to tell all of the story, not just the nice touchy-feely parts.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

We just have to go at 100 miles an hour in all our businesses, be they television broadcasting, be they magazine publishing, be they subscription television, be they online, be they gaming. We just have to go at one hundred miles an hour.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any country. We have private owned networks; some of them are oppositional. We have thousands of regional networks that, in their regions, are more watched than the so-called federal stations.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I don't have a television in my house. I haven't owned one in years. In truth, it's about mental health for me. It's hard for me to have a television in the house because I'll just stay inside and binge-watch stuff that I don't even want to watch. I've learned when I don't have a TV, it forces me to go outside.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's going to be the highest-rated debate in the history of television - or, show in the history of television. And they also said something else. It'll probably be the greatest voter turnout in the history of this country. That could very well be.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.