"Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!"

-- Maxim Gorky

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“I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.”

Source : "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.
“Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
“You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.”
“The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.”

Source : Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.
“The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.”
“For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.”
“When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.”

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