Commodifying Culture Quotes & Sayings

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write. — Sarah Harrison

Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage. — Eddie Montgomery

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. — Campbell Newman

I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors. We — Don DeLillo

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones. — Rachel Kushner

But the windows of the house of Memory, and the windows of the house of Mercy, are not so easily closed as windows of glass and wood. They fly open unexpectedly; they rattle in the night; they must be nailed up. Mr. The Englishman had tried nailing them, but had not driven the nails quite home. So he passed but a disturbed evening and a worse night. — Charles Dickens

Living is making decisions and dealing with the consequences. — Paulo Coelho

How the hell are you idiots allowed to run a country? I should have voted for a clown college. They'd at least have a reason for being this stupid. — Jonathan Maberry

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats? — William Powell

Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place — Sara Ahmed

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that. — Rooney Mara