Entertainment Quotes - Page 21

• Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.

  Witold Walczak

  Censorship, Justify, Industry

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Disney Animation, Organization

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Moving, Home

  "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

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• We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to

  Jerry Lawler

  Sports, Fun, Thinking

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• The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Today, Facts

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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• I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

  Paul Hogan

  Stars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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• The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

  Alvin Toffler

  Wind, Organization, Mass Destruction

  "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.

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• I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

  Tim Walker

  Thinking, Reality, People

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• Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there you will find the heart of a child. Invest the majority of his time in entertainment, and his heart will be turned to love of pleasure. Invest his time in peers rather then family, and his heart will be with the peers more than his family. There is a time and place for all good things in balance, but wise parents will steward the treasure of time, and in so doing, shepherd their children's hearts.

  Doug Phillips

  Wise, Children, Heart

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• It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the tradition role of the poet as purveyor of truth for the people.

  Virgilio S. Almario

  People, Political, Roles

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• Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Stars, Japan, People

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

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• Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.

  George Stults

  Brother, Tvs, Watching Tv

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Lying, Heart

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Who Are You to Judge?: Learning to Distinguish Between Truths, Half-Truths, and Lies”, p.39, Moody Publishers

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• If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

  Glen Duncan

  Want Something, Fiction, Genre

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• We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion.

  Dave Hunt

  Spiritual, Religious, Book

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• The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.

  John D. Rockefeller III

  Art, Daily Life, Form

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• Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.

  Phil Pringle

  Vision, Significance, Greater

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• When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

  David Mamet

  Art, Theatre, World

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.27, Vintage

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• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

  Wynn Bullock

  Creativity, Design, Joy

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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• The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.

  Mike Wells

  New York, Wall, Cities

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