"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions."

-- C. Wright Mills

#Technology Quotes #Media Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“There's a small club of women who are willing to age.”
“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”
“Research is creating new knowledge.”
“Il ne fallait jamais faire des expÃ©riences pour confirmer ses idÃ©es, mais simplement pour les contrÃ´ler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”
“Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.”
“If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make,”

Source : "Hustler is making a porn parody of 'The Interview'" by Emily Blake, www.ew.com. December 19, 2014.
“Going to a bar or pool hall doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesnâ€™t make you a chicken. Itâ€™s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesnâ€™t make you a follower of Christ.”

Source : Jase Robertson (2014). “Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
“In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.”

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