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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store…
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We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
— Nicolas Cage
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In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known…
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Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up…
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French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.…
— Noam Chomsky
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
— Edgar Mitchell
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If you avoid the star system, you'll find equally talented people for a lot less money.
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