Entertainment Quotes - Page 25

• The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

  Leo Kottke

  Guitar, Giving, Relief

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Play, Age, Technique

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• Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Media, Flames

  Song: Willing to Fight, Album: Puddle Dive

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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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• 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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• 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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• Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Difficult, Art Is

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.

  David B. Haight

  Uplifting, Book, Home

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• You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.

  Michael Medved

  Sex, Struggle, Kids

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

  Larry Wall

  People, Values

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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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• 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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• Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Mean, Important, Providing

  "Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm the person who saw things differently'". Interview with Chris Schilling, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Target, Shooting, Enjoy

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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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• Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Ego

  Sing You Home: research for the book, CD lyrics, gay rights info and resources, www.jodipicoult.com.

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• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Forgotten, Producers, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Television, Would Be, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Creative, Stuff

  "SXSW: Morgan Spurlock Calls Distributing Docudrama 'Connected' on AOL 'Freeing'" by Natalie Jarvey, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 14, 2015.

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• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  Vince McMahon

  News, Television, Today

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