Consumers Quotes - Page 37

• ...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

  Mother Jones

  Dark, Japan, Age

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.

  Joshua Harris

  Home, Technology, Challenges

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• We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system

  John Taylor

  Unique, Games, Important

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• Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

  Paul Taylor

  Car, Problem, Abandonment

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• The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.

  David Silverman

  Media, Growth, Dollars

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• How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

  James Heywood

  Information, Changed

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• As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

  John Bright

  Assessment, Hands, Land

  Letter to his sister Margaret, 1842. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, pp. 72-73, 1913.

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• Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

  David Mitchell

  Law, Each Month, Hoarding

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 237, 2004.

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• This idea of popular culture became something that belonged to us rather than something that we looked at from far away. We realized we could be part of it and create it, instead of just being consumers only.

  Simon Pegg

  Ideas, Culture, Just Being

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Ideas, Listening, Consumption

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I talk about things from the perspective of the consumer - mostly because that's what I am. A guy going out and buying things and sharing that experience with the viewer. Nothing should change that, but if it ever does, I'll absolutely make it known.

  Marques Brownlee

  Buying Things, Perspective, Guy

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Culture, Alternatives

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

  Avi Lewis

  Issues, People, Community

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

  Michael Eisner

  Kings, Queens, Choices

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, Two, Tragedy

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• A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

  William S. Burroughs

  Wells, Degrading, Products

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loyalty, Energy, Needs

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• Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Comfort

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them

  Jacob Sullum

  Government, Needs, Stuff

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• Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.

  Larry Siedentop

  Impact, Pedestal, Citizens

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• The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

  Aesop Rock

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• The value of content seems to get higher as the number of distribution pipes increases. The more distribution companies that want to be the top choice of consumers, the more they will pay for the content.

  Wyc Grousbeck

  Numbers, Choices, Getting High

  "NBA Owner Reflects on a Changing Landscape". Interview with Sharon Terlep, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• The actual division of labor must be reflected in the division of the rewards (and prices, which is the way the consumer gets rewarded).

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Division Of Labor, Rewards, Way

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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