J. G. Ballard Quotes
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.J. G. Ballard
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
Edmund White -
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
Adam Carolla -
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
Patrick Collison -
No one pays me to be nice.
Aaron Allston
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
Kate Voegele -
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini -
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence -
It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
Oscar Isaac -
Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
Ranbir Kapoor -
When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Prior to joining NSD, I was briefly associated with a small theater group in Delhi called Sakshi. Saurabh Shukla, Manoj Bapayee were my seniors in that group. I performed a few supporting roles in Sakshi plays.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch -
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski -
Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria -
Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
Hannah Storm -
Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
Patrick Kane -
To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.
William Beebe -
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Joseph Addison -
Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.
Jerry Yang -
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
J. G. Ballard