#essentially

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#being #between #culture #essentially #having

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#art #artist #audience #creating #discovered

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#essentially #ours #refuse #take #tragic

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#area #because #blade #blade runner #done

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#day #essentially #life #midnight #morning

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. ↗

— Halle Berry

#beautiful #beautiful woman #beauty #been #being

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#cooks #essentially #his #moustache #nasty

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#city #city hall #down #essentially #group

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her