J. G. Ballard Quotes
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
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Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.
