J. G. Ballard Quotes
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.J. G. Ballard
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi -
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
Mandy Patinkin -
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
Kate Smith -
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
Ted McGinley -
One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
Samm Levine -
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke
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I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa -
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith -
I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
Olga Fonda -
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose -
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Vidal Sassoon -
It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
Madi Diaz
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
Rachel Cusk -
I'm not big on remakes.
Dana Ashbrook -
My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
Rand Beers -
It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
Oliver Tambo -
If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
B. D. Wong
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I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.
Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer -
People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
Leslie Jones -
There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.
George Michael -
The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.
Wadah Khanfar -
Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.
Chip Conley -
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
J. G. Ballard