Jacque Fresco Quotes
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
Gail Devers -
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.
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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
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As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
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Social media worries me because it's not part of my world.
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My parents were always pretty free with me. They were of the school of thought that if you really cramp down on someone and tell them not to do all these things, it's gonna become like forbidden fruit.
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Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
