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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

— Gretchen Rubin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

— Bill Bixby

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

— George Osborne

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

— Bill Nye

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

— Gates McFadden

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

— Neil Postman

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

— Bryant Gumbel

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

— Ram Kapoor

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

— Dick Wolf

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