Yancy Butler
Actress
"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic."
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Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
Denis Diderot
Philosopher, Writer
"In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it."
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"People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them."
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"We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
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"Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!"
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"It was written without fear and without research."
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"Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune."
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"People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going."
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"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation."
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"Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him."
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"Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education."
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"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
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"Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it."
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"Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad."
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"In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips."
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"God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system."
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"When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System."
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"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."
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"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside."
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"What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures."
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"Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident."
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