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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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.
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That's something we expect from Dre every night, ... We know he has the ability to shut people down.
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God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
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Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
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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.
