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"It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you.""
"Entertainment is all about helping people feel things that they might not have access to normally. They watch something and it makes them feel something, and that makes them reflective about their own life, you know?"
"My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in."
"This is government. There is no entertainment."
"This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils."
"One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment."
"There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them."
"I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean."
"He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life."
"The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back."
"That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it."
"You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment."
"The main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun."
"The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love."
"It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business."
"There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give."
"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
"It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address."
"Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner."
"We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not."
