J. G. Ballard Quotes
Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
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Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.
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With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.
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We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.
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... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.
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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
