"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."

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Source : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

Guy Debord

#Modern Quotes #Accumulation Quotes #Representation Quotes

“Greatness canâ€™t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.”
“There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.”

Source : "Melissa McBride On 'The Walking Dead' Shocker". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 17, 2014.
“Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.”
“How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwennâ€™s gift?â€ â€œNo, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdomâ€™s â€˜humbleâ€™ gift.”
“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.”
“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
“Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.”

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