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The wall should read,

What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
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What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
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Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
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Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Looking for good quotes about television...

Post by C.f.M. » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:26 am

I've narrowed it down to these, but don't completely love any of them.

It's to go on the wall, around my television.

I'm leaning towards the third one, but I'm not comfortable with the word "lover" on the walls of the house my parents frequent...
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Post by Ugly Dougly » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:37 am

The second quote may be from a male point of view.
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Post by C.f.M. » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:41 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:The second quote may be from a male point of view.
Why do you say that?
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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:30 pm

And what's wrong with "Vast Wasteland" in big, hostile letters?
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Post by lonestoner916 » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:51 pm

I would paint "idiot box" with a big arrow pointing to the television.

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"I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked "brightness" but it don't work, does it?" ~Leo Anthony Gallagher



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Post by justfred » Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:35 pm

How about "The Glass Teat" in big letters across the whole screen?
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Post by C.f.M. » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:10 am

Sorry kids, the TV stays, and it will be for watching.

Right now it reads, "The things you identify with eventually identify you."
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Post by oneeyeddick » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:39 am

How about an arrow pointing to it that says "an Activia yogurt commercial will be right here in 3,2,1...." ?
We have an obligation to make space for everyone, we have no obligation to make that space pleasant.
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Post by C.f.M. » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:49 am

Around here it's

[youtube][/youtube]

Not even kidding.
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Post by Fire_Moose » Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:41 am

how about you paint naked women around the tv...win/win
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Post by misfit » Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:09 pm

put up a nice DALI print, and go outside............
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Post by theCryptofishist » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:00 pm

Meh. The best thing about Dali is his titles. And you never know if your Dali print is a fake anyway.
Go for Ernst.
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Post by gyre » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:30 pm

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response."

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Post by C.f.M. » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:41 am

misfit wrote:put up a nice DALI print, and go outside............
There's already three art pieces (by friends, I don't really go for prints, and one picture of fire staff spinning I took) - plus a lovely Liquid Sky poster - surrounding it. The quote is just the piece dey resistanz.

The old TV cozy used to read, "When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships." - Andy Warhol
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Post by Bunny Bear » Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:56 pm

Sort of unrelated, but a good quote on television nonetheless:

“It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in a troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit of all mankind.â€
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Post by C.f.M. » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:07 pm

TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it. ~Author Unknown, from New York Times, 1939
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Post by Isotopia » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:33 pm

Looking for good quotes about television...
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Post by gyre » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:49 am

About Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the Farnsworth, which all of you are staring at right now.


Interviewer: The image dissector was used to send shots back from the moon to earth.
Elma Farnsworth: Right.
Interviewer: What did Phil think of that?
Elma Farnsworth: We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, "Pem, this has made it all worthwhile." Before then, he wasn't too sure.
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Post by Fire_Moose » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:18 am

i liked when he invented the Finglonger
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Post by gyre » Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:29 am

Okay, how about this?


Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Post by Elorrum » Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:04 am

wish I could find the sounds bite of Mick Jagger's response about the impact of their being on American tv. His response was that they were just snippets wedged between advertising, "It's just us and then it's soap powder."
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