Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes
The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.
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Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
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The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
