J. G. Ballard Quotes
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I don't care about revenues.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
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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.
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
