Adam Curtis Quotes

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events.

Adam Curtis

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LiveRelationshipHistoryExperience

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicCultureHelpTryingApple

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Jim Mattis

VisionMindBelieveEnemyYoung

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

Joe Gold

UglyLookingThinkButtBecomeGet

I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

Jessica Lucas

CultureTravelAnimalMeCrazyPlay

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

John Burnside

SeaBestTogetherWindSometimes

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

StupidityMindBodyIdleness

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Jeremy London

CoolTryNeedOutActHang

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean Rostand

GreatnessRecognitionOrderConsent

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

Sophia Amoruso

LifeBusinessGreatJobYouLose

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

Stan Wawrinka

PracticeYoungCourtHoursSpend

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Martin Scorsese

RareWhereUsedArtistsGiantOften

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

Michael Palin

PeopleKnowWantMoreThanPiracy

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