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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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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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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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.
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When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
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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.
