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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jasmine Guy

"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one"

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Quitting TV here isn’t a Luddite flex; it’s a sly status update about attention. Jasmine Guy frames the decision like a casual lifestyle tweak, but the subtext is sharper: the default settings of modern life are engineered to keep you seated, stimulated, and slightly dissatisfied, and she’s refusing the arrangement. “Out of the loop” is doing double duty. It’s an admission of social trade-off (you miss the chatter, the recaps, the shared cultural timestamps) and a quiet boast about opting out of the anxiety market that “the loop” now implies.

The line “Life is way better than TV” lands because it’s deliberately blunt, almost embarrassingly simple, the kind of statement we’re trained to distrust. That’s the point. In a culture that prefers curated recommendations and prestige-watch hierarchies, she’s cutting through with a pre-algorithmic truth: if you remove the constant feed, the world refills itself. The recommendation isn’t moralistic; it’s teasing. “Anyone who has forgotten they have one” is a jab at passive consumption, at how entertainment becomes furniture: always on, rarely chosen. She’s not condemning screens so much as calling out the half-conscious drift into them.

Context matters: an actress advocating less TV reads like a small rebellion against the industry’s totalizing demand for relevance. It’s also a generational pivot. For someone who came up when TV meant scheduled programming and shared finales, choosing absence now is less about missing a show and more about reclaiming a life from perpetual, personalized noise.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Guy, Jasmine. (2026, January 15). We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-gave-up-having-a-tv-last-year-i-am-out-of-the-147067/

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Guy, Jasmine. "We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-gave-up-having-a-tv-last-year-i-am-out-of-the-147067/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-gave-up-having-a-tv-last-year-i-am-out-of-the-147067/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1964) is a Actress from USA.

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