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Quotes About Zeitgeist

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
~ Yochai Benkler
Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
~ Natalie Massenet
Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative.
~ Ehud Barak
I had to make my history quick because there would be no future, merely a gossamer world blown about on the zeitgeist, till zeitgeist, the wind of the times, is blasted away by kamikaze, the wind of God.
~ Rene Ricard
I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.
~ Ross Butler
We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
It's a whole series of accidents that makes a show into a hit. A show can be fantastic and still not be a hit. You just have to hit the Zeitgeist at the right moment, and there are so many factors that you're not in control of.
~ Kerry Bishe
Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.
~ Stephen Colbert
You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.
~ Jon Favreau
It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
~ Frances McDormand
I think we have a responsibility to shape the zeitgeist with the movies we put out there. Because 'After Earth' isn't going to do it. 'The Expendables 3' isn't going to do it. You could make one million amazing films for the amount of money they spend on those films. I get frustrated.
~ Will Poulter
I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
I don't understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.
~ Sue Perkins
I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
~ Hozier
I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.
~ Marilyn Minter
The Real World' perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
Not everyone's going to agree to eat chicken wings, that's obviously an enormous catch to our show, that's an enormous ask. It's not easy to get anyone to do your show, but on 'Hot Ones,' you have to eat scorching-hot chicken wings. So it's always going to be a challenge to book, in my opinion, no matter how popular it is in the zeitgeist.
~ Sean Evans
I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
~ Kevin McKidd
We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.
~ Mitch Lasky
Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.
~ Joe Wurzelbacher
If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.
~ Ariel Pink
There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
~ Iman
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
~ G. Willow Wilson