Entertainment Quotes - Page 29

• What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Want, Talent

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• I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.

  Scott Adkins

  Dad, Kids, Appreciate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.

  Keri Russell

  Thinking, Two, Space

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• Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?

  Hill Harper

  Uplifting, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.

  Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

  Running, Spiritual, Stress

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• All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  School, Way, Emotion

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• We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Want, Audience

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• What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

  Paul Schneider

  Mistake, Stupid, Tools

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Wish, Television

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• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Country, Kids, Degrees

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• I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

  Lennie James

  Together, Pieces, Tvs

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

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• I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Thinking, Opera

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• The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Opportunity, History, Giving

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.363

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• Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Culture, Gujarat

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• I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.

  Luke Haines

  Believe, Cutting, Opportunity

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• The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Generations, Lasts, Next

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

  Katy Perry

  Comedian, Fart, Blasphemy

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2010

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• I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fiction, Want, Contemplation

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• I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

  Norman Foster

  Distance, Space, Generosity

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• I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

  Axl Rose

  Strong, Pain, Taken

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• Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.

  Riccardo Muti

  Soccer, Sports, Symphony

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• Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, People, Giving

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Simple, Giving

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

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• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ideas, Skulls, Battle

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• The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

  Charlie Pierce

  College, Deceit, Fundamentals

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