#cult

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cult




If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.


Michael Schudson


#bow #culture #equally #find #gods

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz


#agreed #anything #anything is possible #challenges #come

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.


Martin Sheen


#conservative #contribution #culture #democrat #down

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.


Archie Shepp


#culture #decade #existential #how #idea

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.


Hu Shih


#contact #culture #diffused #factors #necessary

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.


Tom Waits


#continues #culture #enormous #everyone #had

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.


Andrzej Wajda


#difficulty #even #film #given #good

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.


Douglas Coupland


#consumer-culture #end-of-the-word #feudalism #technology #age

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.


Vivienne Westwood


#actually #around #because #boudoir #difficult

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.


Jeanette Winterson


#children #deeply #difficult #i #love