But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
~By Donna Tartt ~
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
~By Will McDonough ~
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
~By Luis Barragan ~
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
~By Tipper Gore ~
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
~By Howard Finster ~
There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
~By Matt Drudge ~
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
~By James Spader ~
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
~By Peter Sellers ~
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
~By Will McDonough ~
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
~By Bob Inglis ~
I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.
~By David Morse ~
I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.
~By Michael Dorn ~
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
~By Karel Reisz ~
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
~By Abdallah II ~
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
~By Dick Cavett ~
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
~By Joe Biden ~
I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.
~By Lesley-Anne Down ~
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
~By Hart Crane ~
So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.
~By Christian Bale ~
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
There was only so much television you could do.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.
~By Michael Gambon ~
Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
~By Jamie Farr ~
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
~By Tavis Smiley ~
For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
~By John Zorn ~
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
~By Nick Cassavetes ~
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
~By Uri Geller ~
I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet.
~By Julian McMahon ~
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.
~By Jason Marsden ~
We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
~By Bo Derek ~
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
~By Robert Jarvik ~
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
~By George Sutherland ~
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
~By Robert Duvall ~
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
~By David Korten ~
One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?
~By Paul Vixie ~
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
~By Will McDonough ~
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
~By William Gibson ~
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
~By Betty Grable ~
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
~By John T. Flynn ~
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
~By Lee Child ~
Year Two is a critical year for any television show.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
~By Steven Bochco ~
There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.
~By Bryant Gumbel ~
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I got an early education from television.
~By Debra Wilson ~
There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
I just always had a love for television and movies.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.
~By Marcus Allen ~
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
~By Alan Parker ~
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
~By Thomas More ~
I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?
~By Sonny Rollins ~
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
~By Jay Inslee ~
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.
~By Annette Funicello ~
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.
~By Star Jones ~
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
~By Eric Horvitz ~
Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).
~By John Podhoretz ~
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
~By Mark Shields ~
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
~By Rick Moranis ~
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
~By Linda Blair ~
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
~By Robert Bresson ~
I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
~By Lena Horne ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napolean Hill ~
A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
~By Jake Roberts ~
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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