"Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Simon de Pury

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days.â€ â€œThat does not sound too difficult. Has she done much public speaking?â€ Amilia forced a smile. â€œA week ago she said the word no.”
“Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.”
“America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.”

Source : "Think Again: The End of Newspapers and the Decline of Democracy" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.
“In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.”
“Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and canâ€™t act in any of them.”
“As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.”

Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.
“I've not had a mean life.”

Source : "Sissy Spacek Talks ‘My Extraordinary Ordinary Life,’ Hollywood Stereotypes" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.”

Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone (1893). “The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798; Ed. with an Introduction by R. Barry O'Brien”

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