Adam Curtis Quotes
One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Trump says a lot of things that are crazy... Trump's a moron.
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I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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I was never part of the crowd.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
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Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff.
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The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.
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One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.
