#cult

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#began #difficulty #foolish #fuss #making

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#arts #clear #difficult #go #heat

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#appeals #commercialization #culture #go #i

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! ↗

— Taylor Swift

#doing #favorite #get #light #me

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#back #christ #clock #difficult #find

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. ↗

— Ice T

#art form #because #been #difficult #feel

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #misfortunes #pleasure #remain

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

#difficult #less #measure #misfortune #pleasure