"I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume."

-- Vanessa Grigoriadis

#Focus Quotes #Marketing Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.”
“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”
“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life”
“We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan
“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
“You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!”
“You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.”

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