#comment

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#commentator #get #i #laugh #out

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#society #beauty

In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except " Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. ↗

— George Orwell

#money

Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#life #music #pop-culture #songs #life

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. ↗

— David Byrne

#social-commentary #music

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#comment #else #i #judgmental #person

America isn't a country; it's a marketplace. The more you sell, the more at home you'll feel. ↗

— Iimani David

#home

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective. ↗

— Richard Donner

#been #comments #i #narrow #objective

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#average #aware #business #comment #get

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#central #choices #chose #comment #continuity