Quotes About Homogenized

America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.

I don't care much for this homogenised religion, and I told him so. This notion that you mustn't think your way to faith is obviously not far from the intolerance that leads to burning books.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

restaurants. Bailey liked New York City better before its Disney-fication, when it was still messy and dangerous, full of style, outrage, art, underground clubs. When you might easily get mugged on the Bowery, or offered drugs on Tenth Street, or propositioned in the Meatpacking District. Now things were homogenized, gentrified. Safer, prettier, Instagrammable. Better, some would no doubt say. But not real, somehow. Somehow packaged and sold. The idea of New York City, the dream of it.

Now that I'm a wiser, older human, when I do photo shoots, I specifically say, 'Please do not airbrush my moles out.' Because they will do it, to make you homogenized.

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

The word quirky is so much more loathed than the word whimsy that it does not bear the time it would require to dissect its horrors. The choice to have a perceptible aesthetic at all is often called a quirk. The word quirky suggests that in a homogenized culture, difference has to be immediately defined, sequestered, and formally quarantined while being gently patted on the head.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down.

The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.

Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.