#cult

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#author #becomes #been #book #dead

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards. ↗

— Guy Forget

#afterwards #close #come #difficult #dream

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#coarse #cultural #even #first #first time

Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#away #coffee #did #difficult #easy

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#challenges #corporate #culture #ensure #history

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#becomes #difficult #element #especially #i

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#austria #both #countries #cultural #france

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#advances #agriculture #care #continue #defense

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth