J. G. Ballard Quotes
The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.
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When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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'The Muppet Show' was huge. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I really loved the way they used music on that. I also remember hearing the radio in the car as a kid, like Stevie Wonder and Simon and Garfunkel.
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The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.
