#commercial

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' ↗

— Kanye West

#amount #apply #art #art world #board

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#aspect #because #commercial #going #i

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. ↗

— Jack White

#certainly #commercial #i #seems #song

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#commercial #did #exist #invent #necessary

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#classes #commercial #hope #live #memory

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. ↗

— Alex Winter

#direct #i #lot #music #music videos

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#bad #commercials #drowning #everybody #getting