J. G. Ballard Quotes
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I don't know what love means.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
