Adam Curtis Quotes
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.
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There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.
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I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
