Malik Yoba Quotes

I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I grew up in front of a TV.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

Television was essentially my college.

As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.