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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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.
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You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
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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.
