J. G. Ballard Quotes
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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You don't want to just exist, you want to get the most out of life.
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Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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I wasn't even popular at school.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
