Zeitgeist Quotes - Page 2

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  Yochai Benkler

  Practice, Organization, Ideas

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• Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

  James Hillman

  Invisible, Visible, Vessel

  James Hillman (2009). “Alchemical Psychology: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• [On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Games, Hunger, Disparity

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• Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Trying, Done

  Source: wwd.com

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• Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

  Will Self

  Fall, Categories, Novel

  "In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• I've said this a lot lately, too: if, 20 or 30 years down the road, when everything's said and done, I was never able to achieve that level of zeitgeist again, then so be it. I know how rare it is for anybody to do that. But I also feel like, OK, we're getting on to 25 years of putting out records: that's also kind of rare air for anybody who makes music. And I think you just end up kind of grateful for every opportunity that comes along.

  DJ Shadow

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

  Jay Kinney

  Powerful, Eye, Cutting

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• I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

  Alan Cumming

  Scotland, Choices, Up To You

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• As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

  Lou Lumenick

  Air, Directors, Knack

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• Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

  Hamish Bowles

  Fashion, Mirrors, Trying

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• Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click here for a picture of my dog.'

  Steven Johnson

  Dog, Real, Internet

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• One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Bulls, Steps, Criteria

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• There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.

  Christine Vachon

  Father, Dark, Years

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• Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

  Kevin McKidd

  Acting, Hips

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• I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

  Courtney Love

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

  Annie Lennox

  Issues, Goal, Feminism

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• Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

  Hozier

  Art, Art And Music, Vehicle

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.

  Rhys Darby

  Mean, Connections, Stuff

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in which it is produced. I think it's inescapable. It's like we look back now, at work done savoring the thirties, and you can almost tell it was done during that period of time. Now maybe, that's a style of period or something, I don't know. I think my work, or the things that interest me, come out of my reaction to history.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that that person said. It really behooves people in the public eye to know what's in the zeitgeist and to have opinions on it. It becomes a thing of is this genuine, or is this just a way for celebrities to keep themselves relevant in a time when this is obviously a hot topic?

  Andi Zeisler

  Eye, People, Hot

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Absolutely I'm going to be talking about it, because it's in the zeitgeist and it's happening. It's an election year. It's the biggest election. Every election is a big election, so whenever anybody says that it kinds of grates me, but it's a fiasco. It's turned into a complete circus act, so of course you have to make fun of it, but responsible journalists definitely are being irresponsible. They're giving [Donald Trump] so much air time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fun, Air, Talking

  Source: variety.com

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• When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Writing, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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