Commercial Quotes

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

Hope, Live, Memory

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
Abdul Kalam

Nation, Follow, Policy

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke

Found, Wealth, Interest

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Neil Young

Music, Today, Trying

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Great, Power

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
Andy Warhol

Soon, Market, Decided

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Private, Fly, Plane

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison

Unjust, Oppressive, Generally

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin

Music, Art, Around

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan

Society, Social, Whose

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom Stoppard

Different, Whole, Purpose

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov

Made, Reason, American

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
Brian Eno

Idea, Tried, Large

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.
Tori Amos

Control, Hand, Company

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia

Success, Music, Business

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
Camille Paglia

Time, Art, Hero

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
Camille Paglia

Design, Past, Reality

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.
Susan Orlean

Bad, Listen, Annoying

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Henry Louis Gates

Truth, Business, Sad

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson

Writing, Control, Find

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.
Kristen Stewart

Two, Young, Kids

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
David Duchovny

Getting, Started, Appear

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Love, End, Feeling

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
J. G. Ballard

Time, Computers, Help

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.
Sienna Miller

Big, Interested, Longer

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.
Sienna Miller

Big, Films, Averse

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
Linus Torvalds

Important, Whether, Company

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Ralph Fiennes

Film, Act, Language

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
Francis Ford Coppola

Through, Another, Creative

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.
Kristen Stewart

While, Seriously, Silly

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