Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)
“People who won't have a TV set in their house get more pleasure from their refusal than most of us get from TV.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Harriet Van Horne (1920–1998) American journalist
Women Know Everything! http://books.google.com/books?id=nTKgWEBhBeoC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=There+are+days+when+any+electrical+appliance+in+the+house,+including+the+vacuum+cleaner,+offers+more+entertainment+than+the+TV+set.&source=web&ots=OgBpFo7CWB&sig=ngxgVw4am7DRU0wMlhh9DCs3N7k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007
“Life gets higher ratings than TV.”
Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/greenpresident.html (Green Party presidential manifesto), January 2009.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
quoted in "Marshall McLuhan, Author, Dies; Declared 'Medium Is the Message'" by Alden Whitman, The New York Times, January 1, 1981
1980s
“People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.”
Gene Wolfe book Starwater Strains
"Hunter Lake", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist
"A liberal pundit soars to a prominent perch," Boston Globe (September 8, 2008)
“It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.”
Pat Sajak (1946) American television host
2000s
Source: Chicago, Vol. 57, Nr, 1-4 (2008), p. 28
“The TV business is uglier than most things.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner (4 November 1985), this is often quoted as concluding with the statement "There's also a negative side." Research by David Emery, in Your Guide to Urban Legends http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/hunter_thompson_2.htm indicates that these words, however were not included by Thompson himself in the published version. <br class="br">1980s, Generation of Swine (1988) <br class="br">Context: The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ”
Дэн Кеннеди (1982) American soccer player