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• I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

  Andrew Shue

  Opportunity, White, Media

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• We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Children, Growing Up, Fun

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• The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

  Oliver DeMille

  Rome, Leisure, Slave

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• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  Maximilian Schell

  Europe, Energy, Moral

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fall, Our Words, Forget

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• I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Thinking, Ideas, Style

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• I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

  John Tesh

  Tonight, Television, Cleanliness

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• For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Luxury, World

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Opportunity, Doors

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, Always Trying, People

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• With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

  Carlos Slim

  Important, Relax, Quality

  "Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of life" by Helen Davidson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Example, Networking

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• Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Vanity, Knowing

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• There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

  Larry Wall

  People, Values

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• Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Rocks, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Sports, Men, Rocks

  "Fictional character: The Rock". "Fully Loaded", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

  Daniel Hannan

  Book, Anecdotes, Cracks

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• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

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• If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

  Michael Medved

  Long, Waiting, Another Day

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• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  David Rockwell

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, America, Issues

  "Singer-songwriter Serj Tankian". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

  Paige Bradley

  Art, Luxury, Culture

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• As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' But they've certainly been lying low while our twitchy, tweet-y times have favored snarkier, more air-quote-driven entertainment, even from puppets. And in a way, that showbiz hiatus has worked in favor of The Muppets. For adults, the movie's gentle, clever, unironic humor feels freshly, trendily retro now, enhanced by laughs provided in cameos from a very up-to-date roster of stars.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Stars, Queens, Clever

  "The Muppets" by Lisa Schwarzbaum, ew.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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