George Gerbner Quotes

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

George Gerbner

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• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Best

• I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Cinema

• Ronald Isley is a musical genius.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Genius
  • Musical

• Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Percent
  • Mental

• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Never
  • Either
  • Acted

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Reality
  • Water

• … the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Ego

• Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • May
  • High
  • Die

• Everyone, it's okay to say the word 'bitcoin' and acknowledge that it is the actual platform that is driving this innovation that we're all building on. It's also okay to say 'the bitcoin blockchain,' or 'the blockchain,' if you're afraid that people will think you're weird.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • People
  • Weird
  • Driving

• I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People

• As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Society

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Time
  • Women
  • Live

• We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Money
  • Movie

• My feeling is that it's important that you show kids reality.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Reality

• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  

  Kim Dickens

• If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Family
  • Business
  • Job

• Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Education

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

  

  Joe Morton
  • America
  • Culture
  • Opinion

• You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

  

  George Gerbner
  • Culture
  • Stories
  • Sell