J. G. Ballard Quotes
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
Quotes to Explore
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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I was a horrible student.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
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The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.
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This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
