J. G. Ballard Quotes
The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.J. G. Ballard
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
Ira Sachs -
Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider -
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza -
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis -
We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
Zara Larsson -
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
Irwin Redlener -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite -
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
Rafael Nadal -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame -
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
Ram Charan -
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnon -
Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
Amanda de Cadenet -
It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.
Lu Wei -
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
Hakuin Ekaku -
The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
J. G. Ballard