J. G. Ballard Quotes
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...J. G. Ballard
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
Carine Roitfeld -
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie -
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps -
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
Haley Bennett -
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
Bam Margera
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
Karin Slaughter -
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali -
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Xun Kuang -
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Lance Morrow -
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
Larry McMurtry -
My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
Laura Moser -
I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.
Kawhi Leonard -
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
Randy Pausch
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I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
Daniel Handler -
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio -
I might be trying to change the world, but I also better be funny while I'm doing it. I've never lost sight of that.
Bill Nye -
Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
J. G. Ballard