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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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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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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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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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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I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
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My body and my will are one.
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She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.
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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
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But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.
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I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?
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Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
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Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
