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 like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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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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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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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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I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.
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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
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I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.
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Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.
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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.
