Adam Curtis Quotes

As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.

Adam Curtis

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I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

Joe Mantello

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Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Joan Didion

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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

John Marshall Harlan

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I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

Ana Ivanovic

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Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Solon

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The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker

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How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

Robert Dallek

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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

Luke Ford

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I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.

Josh Gordon

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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MusicYouPersonYoungMeetWithin

I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes.

Chip Kidd

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