Quotes
Authors
Stuart Ewen

"The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet."

Source : Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

Stuart Ewen

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“I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.”
“Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.”

Source : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”
“What I try to do is find a weakness in my opponent. A way that I can hit you. One good, clean shot. Try to time it. If I can get it and the shot is there, if I find that shot in the first round and they go down, they go down. I'm prepared for anything, not just to get first round knockouts. If they're there, I'm not gonna resist to take them.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.”
“Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth.”
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
“It's a good feeling to be at a place where you know who you are as an artist. I didn't know back then, I just wanted to give my family a better life and myself. I wanted to sing, but I didn't know as an artist who I wanted to be and because of all those experiences, it helped shape me into who I am and what I've now realized and what it is that brings me happiness which is when I pick up the guitar and do records.”
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

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