Jillian Michaels Quotes

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

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.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.