J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
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I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
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Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
