Jacque Fresco Quotes
The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.
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The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
