Quotes About Commercialism

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products

In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.

There is no weather in malls.

You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.

For meg var Oasen et navn som aldri hadde slått an. Det meste i Fyllingsdalen var grønnere enn den steinørkenen her. Men så var det ingen skjermet idyll i det de kalte Lagunen heller. Navnevalgene til kjøpesentre i bergensregionen minnet mer om lengselen ut til solrike steder enn det de var: overfylte maurtuer til kommersialismens pris.

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questione, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, every- thing was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.

What good was this place, this college? What good was Anglo-Saxon, when one only learned it in order to answer examination questions, in order that one should have a higher commercial value later on? She was sick with this long service at the inner commercial shrine. Yet what else was there? Was life all this, and this only? Everywhere, everything was debased to the same service. Everything went to produce vulgar things, to encumber material life.

He was reminded of TV ads for plug-in air fresheners where some woman would stick the little plastic thing in a socket and animated fumes would waft out and everyone would lift their faces, close their eyes, breathe in deeply and go 'Aaaaaah'. Like they were taking some kind of drug rather than inhaling chemicals.

real life can be fascinating, it isn't as marketable as a tale with a plot.

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then? Ten grand?

In his book, Payne advises cutting back on toys that are too complicated (elaborate, joyless "educational" toys), too fixed (ones that require zero imaginative input, such as a huge furnished plastic castle with a cast of thousands), or too commercial. The more a child can use their imagination with a toy—initiating the action, rather than having it prescribed for them—the better.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

I didn't get played on radio or TV for 3 years. They all told me the same thing: it was too urban. They don't see grime music as commercial music, but all music is commercial; it's how you make it. That's what I'm trying to say.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Numa era de vigilância comercial omnipresente que é inerente à capacidade de as empresas prestarem os serviços que solicitamos, o tipo de privacidade que tínhamos no passado morreu.

Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the others' successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks.