Quotes About Self Entertainment

#1. One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment.

Marty Rubin

#2. Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#3. A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education.

Orrin Woodward

#4. Donna Summer... Is a singing sensation who brings joy to all music lovers, a gifted individual and major figure in the entertainment world whose colourful melodies and tales stay eternally in every fan's heart.

Nik A. Ramli

#5. Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

Dionne Warwick

#7. To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

David Spade

#9. The thing I love about soaps, and from what I know about this is its run in a very old school way, which I like, since I have been doing this entertainment thing for a long time. But I see that there are some new barriers that they can break.

Darius McCrary

#10. You might be a redneck if you consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.

Jeff Foxworthy

#11. I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

Moby

#12. Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

Jenova Chen

#13. Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#15. I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Kevin Hart

#16. If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Julius Erving

#17. It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.

Scott Bakula

#18. 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.

John Wayne

#19. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

Catherine Bybee

#20. To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Ray Charles

#21. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#22. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Thomas Szasz

#23. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

Will Self

#24. An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

Peter London

#25. We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

James Gleick

#26. People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.

Will Ferguson

#27. The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

Michael Shermer

#28. The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

Lester Levenson

#29. Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#30. Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

Arianna Huffington

#31. While American roads offer predictable safety, Indian roads compensate by providing unending entertainment, and even some opportunities for self growth. An Indian road is a stage where Life seems to be unabashedly living itself out.

Ajit Harsinghani

#32. Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

John Ringo

#33. Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.

Greg Carlisle

#34. Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Nouman Ali Khan

#35. ... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

Bethany Brookbank

#36. If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Bruce Willis

#37. Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Sarah Fielding

#38. All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Larry Cohen

#39. Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Kevin Mitnick

#40. It's tempting to think of US politics as sport or entertainment until you realize these clowns are actually making important policy decisions.

Michael Sadoff

#41. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Kim Swift

#42. I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

Tim Walker

#43. When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.

Alfred Amoroso

#44. The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Wendell Pierce

#45. Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.

Carroll Bryant

#46. One even speaks of 'globalization' of it, in every field of human activities, where 'fashion' or entertainment have very little to do

Saveros Pou

#47. I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

Jon Stewart

#48. I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

Andy Cohen

#49. The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H.L. Mencken

#50. People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Alex Tabarrok

#51. The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Robert Crumb

#52. Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

#53. Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Michael Landon Jr.

#54. I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Charice Pempengco

#55. Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

Michael Jackson

#56. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#57. A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

James Wolcott

#58. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#59. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Richard Dawkins

#60. I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

Rachel Nichols

#61. There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

Ridley Scott

#62. I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

Gail Carriger

#63. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#64. I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

Malaika Arora Khan

#65. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Harriet Van Horne

#66. We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.

Bakari Kitwana

#67. This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

John Swartzwelder

#68. I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.

Martin Donovan