J. G. Ballard Quotes
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.J. G. Ballard
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman -
Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
Tavi Gevinson -
My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
Malik Jackson -
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
B. D. Wong -
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
Karl Jaspers -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
Queen Latifah -
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
Barry Eisler -
There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
Patrick M. Byrne -
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Oscar Wilde -
I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.
Kesha -
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind -
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard