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I learned how to speak English watching television.
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
I love sitting at home. I love laying in bed watching television.
I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.
I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.
Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.
If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.
I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.
If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.
I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.
I remember watching television when I was younger, and I felt like there were things TV tackled first, and then it would happen to me in real life, and I felt prepared.
I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.
Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.
I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.
My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.
My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'
You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.
When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.
When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'
I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
We're busy people; we need media that's multitask-able. I want games I can play while I'm watching television. 70% of Americans are on the Internet while they watch TV. We all multitask now, and we need media to reflect that.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.
I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?
When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.