J. G. Ballard Quotes
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
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When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
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This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.
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I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.
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I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
