“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?” IfsIdeasTodayJesusSpeakHoursTalkingTroubleTelevisionBritishNot InterestedTalking HeadsBritish Television Author:John Cleese
“I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.” PlayDesireGamesWinningSpeakPlayerTeamTelevisionFootballApproachChampionNflAweLegendsBowlsSan FranciscoSuper BowlDesire To WinThe Love Of The Game Author:Jerry Rice
“All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.” WorldUseSpeakWatchesTechnologyTelevisionMaterialsEssentialsComputerProgramMachinesPhonesPremisesMaterial WorldFaxFax Machines Author:Deepak Chopra
“I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldDoeShowsSpeakWatchesComedyTelevisionMusicianPromotingInsipid Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.” TryingSpeakCareersAudienceTelevisionPrint Author:Gwen Ifill
“I learned how to speak English watching television.” SpeakTelevisionSpeak EnglishWatching Television Author:Azita Ghanizada
“I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.” I CanHardSpeakFeltBehindsTelevisionCapableConcernedNegativeCome UpVicesRhythmSomething NewVice Versa Author:Tom Verlaine
“Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.” CharacterFilmSpeakTelevisionPages Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.” WorldFeelsStatesAgeSpeakUnitedUnited StatesOur LivesHappenedMediaTelevisionElementsScaryErasPrivacyJustifyDissentSpeaks OutNew EraPeeling Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.” PeopleWorldWayHumansLooksMeanEndsAgeAbleSpeakCommunityGenerationsTelevisionHealthyRadioMediumsDevelopingDevicesComing Of AgeTailsNoveltyCablesEnamoredTelegraph Author:Astra Taylor
“Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDoneSpeakLanguageAbilityHeardTelevisionObsessedInterviewsAutisticForeign Language Author:Jon Gnarr
“I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.” PersonsMadeYoungFightingSpeakMy OwnTeacherGenerationsChildhoodTelevisionGeniusDramaMassRaisedRidiculousEstablishmentBobDylanHippieMy GenerationEnglish TeacherBeckettOpiatesGinsbergScience TeacherGeneration Y Author:Simon Rich