Paul Robert Morley Quotes

If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise

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• Desire
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• Narcissism

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• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Weakness
  • Chocolate
  • Belgian

• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Believe
  • Single
  • Day

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Enjoy
  • I Can
  • Meat

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Help
  • Government
  • Growth

• The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • People
  • Support

• One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

  

  Iain Banks
  • God
  • Mind
  • American

• Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Dream
  • Difficult
  • Fate

• People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • People
  • Desire
  • Fierce