Entertainment Quotes - Page 40

• Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

  Richard Dawkins

  White, Black, Fiction

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• Bug eating and backstabbing are the stuff of great entertainment.

  Mark Burnett

  Stuff, Backstabbing, Bugs

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• It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment.

  James Turrell

  Vegas, Interesting, Days Off

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.

  Doug Benson

  Getting High, Comedic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Taken, Thinking, Differences

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

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Growing Up, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Validation, Space

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.

  Patricia Arquette

  Dubai, People, Thailand

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Organization, Community

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• Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment.

  Derek Prince

  Prayer, Commitment, Priorities

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• I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Sports, Light, People

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• You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that you have to get straight to the point with. You can't lollygag and bullshit because that's his game. Being serious and doing my job throwing punches in the ring, that's my game. I don't come to put on a show for the people. I come to give the people a fight and give them their money's worth; give them real entertainment.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Jobs, Real, Fighting

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• For me, boxing isn't about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Hurt, People, Boxing

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• I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can, in real time, produce something that holds people accountable. That's an exciting time to be living in.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Technology, People

  "'It felt like the bullsh*t was flowing directly at us': Morgan Spurlock turns fact-checking the outrageous GOP debate into a game". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.salon.com. October 29, 2015.

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Black, Cotton

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

  Danny Glover

  Powerful, Class, Ideas

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.

  Richard Shepard

  Thinking, America, Laughing

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.

  Malik Yusef

  Rivers, Age, Mountain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.

  Sacha Gervasi

  Book, Talking, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

  Chuck Barris

  Reality, Games, Watches

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

  Killer Mike

  Motivation, Rap, Hip Hop

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 2014.

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