Bruce Sterling Quotes

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

Follow the Money

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

Our whole attitude about life is money-oriented. And money is one of the most uncreative things one can become interested in. Our whole approach is power-oriented and power is destructive, not creative. A man who is after money will become destructive, because money has to be robbed, exploited; it has to be taken away from many people, only then can you have it. Power simply means you have to make many people impotent, you have to destroy them - only then will you be powerful, can you be powerful.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

I think Deepika is the best looking girl and actor in Bollywood.

sex is a commodity just like anything else.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.