“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.” PeopleCountryWholeCultureLanguageAttentionAwarenessTelevisionBuddhismCollectives Author:Frederick Lenz
“Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.” NeedsArtChristianFilmFormCultureChristianityCreativeCuttingWorstTelevisionFineConfusedVisualsDesperateExcessIndifferentArenaGlamourFine ArtsDenseSeducingBasenessObfuscation Author:John Walford
“The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.” ImportantFactsHomeCultureQualityAudienceTeamTelevisionManagementRadioCommittedBritishThriveOnlineDedicatedProvidingTestamentPublic ServiceBritish Culture Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.” WayShouldCountryTodayCultureRolesTelevisionPoliticianRadioMissionsJournalistFlawsPitsCoveragePernicious Author:Tim Allen
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.” YearsCultureCreativeHappenedTelevisionShotsYears AgoHollywoodFinancialPresenter Author:Terry Wogan
“I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.” LittlesCountryTurnsCultureChurchTakenFiveMinutesTelevisionBecomingGoodnessEntertainmentVideoThese DaysSubstanceThirtyOther CountriesShallowSermonsFive MinutesAmerican CultureTurn-onEthosClipDisheartenedVideo Clips Author:Philip Yancey
“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?” IfsLooksBookMatterCultureReadingLeftMeditationEffectsTelevisionTvsMajorsProgramWaveDisappearLook UpProcessingHemisphereAlphasWatching TvWatching TelevisionBetaTheta Author:Leonard Shlain
“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.” LooksDifferentWarHandsSchoolEarthPastPoliticalCultureEasyWealthViolenceTelevisionBuildingHorrorPrejudicePressesPrisonLiarsContinuingMurdererDiscouragedObservingOutrageousPolitical PowerPoisoningGood Earth Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.” PeopleMadeShowsAbleCultureTermRealizingFansIdentityTelevisionLifetimeCome UpOur SocietyInclusionAppreciativeReally Deep Author:Jennifer Beals
“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.” IfsMenWayYoungPoliticalCultureCoursesEnemyYouthTelevisionOffersClothesIntellectualIntelligentPopsDefenseYoung ManGamblingElitesConvincingFashionablePop MusicIntegratingInquiringNational CultureFashionable Clothes Author:Anthony Daniels
“The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them-from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.” MenNeedsBookPhilosophySchoolCulturePrinciplesTelevisionCollegeHe ManPhilosopherConvictionNewspapersMagazinesAtmosphereToneEtcNot InterestedHandfulDefault Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.” WayLittlesBookTurnsCultureNextWeekTelevisionBuildingConversationCome UpBoxesInventionFantasticHelpfulDevicesImprovingSplendidTurn OffNext WeekMarvellousRadiusRemote ControlBuilding Something Author:A. A. Gill
“I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?” ThinkingWayBookKidsUsedCultureGoalTelevisionTownsPopsAccessPop CultureBookstores Author:Matt Groening
“It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.” PeopleReasonFeelingsHateCultureMediaTelevisionComfortableElectionWarmCandidatesFriendlyMechanic Author:Michael Schur
“TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.” ArtCultureLanguageLandTelevisionTvsReflectionStructureAddConsumerismStereotypeDemographics Author:Roseanne Barr
“Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.” FirstsCultureTelevisionWrestlingAmerican CulturePro Wrestling Author:CM Punk
“Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration.” WellsLooksImportantBookInspirationCultureGamesTelevisionSourceSeriesPopsVideoStorytellingMediumsPop CultureSource Of Inspiration Author:Sam Lake
“The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.” TurnsCultureMediaTelevisionCamerasNativeAfghanistanDragCrewRagsMeccaSurrogatesAnchorman Author:Lance Morrow
“Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.” CultureTelevisionExposedAmerican Television Author:Dominic West
“Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.” PeopleIdeasCareMovingCultureStarsSunSkyModernTelevisionMoonBusyAncientEveningNo IdeaImpressToo BusySun MoonStonehenge Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.” IfsWorldMightRunningFilmMovingTurnsCultureLeftSunPiecesTelevisionNeededMirrorsRoseCreditLocalsOpeningSunsetOperaReverseSunriseClosingSoapSaving MoneySoap OperasRunning Back Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.” ImportantCertainCultureTelevisionImpactInventionPrintingIndescribable Author:Carl Sandburg
“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.” ShowsFilmCultureNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionHugePeriodsTwentiesMythologyBunchTelevision ShowsRoaringUnderworldRoaring Twenties Author:Martin Scorsese