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Entertainment6 quotes
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. — Alfred Hitchcock · 1960Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are. — Roger Ebert · 2010Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. — Guy Debord · 1967The masses2 quotes
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Art1 quote
Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are. — Roger Ebert · 2010Decline of civilization1 quote
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127Decline of religion1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929Hollywood1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929Modern life1 quote
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. — Guy Debord · 1967Purpose of life1 quote
Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127The Church1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929