Adam Curtis Quotes

In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.

Adam Curtis

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GoodAgeTruthTogetherComputers

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

Joanna Krupa

CoolThinkFriendsYouDancingOut

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

John Dos Passos

WorkManFeelMoreRightKids

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Max Stirner

GoodGodMyselfManI AmMe

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

Steve Buscemi

GreatMeThinkKnowActorTry

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Steven Pinker

ConfidencePoliceGovernmentPeople

The reason I love Lollapalooza is because it's a great music festival.

Michael Pena

LoveMusicGreatReasonBecause

Cajun culture is dying.

Michael K. Williams

CultureDying

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

Jason Day

MeFeetDifficultOpenYearsOff

My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.

Jason Kander

SonBestWifeWorldTrueBrilliant

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Jose Saramago

LifeWorldRestNowTerribleEither

I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.

Bob Saget

GoodPeopleMeFeelBadSay

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

Allan Guthrie

MindMeWhyWillMorePsychology

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