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"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."
"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story."
"You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise."
"The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy."
"You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that."
"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."
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