Jacque Fresco Quotes
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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I'm sure it appeared on the surface that I jumped from band to band for the sake of my career, but that's never been my intent. My whole desire in my career was to be in one band.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.
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On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.
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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
