Adam Curtis Quotes

So much of the language that surrounds us - from things like economics, management theory, and the algorithms built into computer systems - appears to be objective and neutral. But in fact, it is loaded with powerful, and very debatable, political assumptions about how society should work and what human beings are really like.

Adam Curtis

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Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Jim Rohn

MoneyDoctorFeelYouGoSkill

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Joe Klein

PoliticalBeenVeteran

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GodMeWouldWantedHeCreated

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

John Hewson

TimeWarBetterAustraliaArguing

We're all multi-sided. We should all keep that in mind.

Angela Robinson

MindKeepShould

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

John Saxon

PeoplePlaceYoungNeverChanges

To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

SafetyStrongAmericaFarmBuild

The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of celebrity interviews I was doing for television.

Robin Leach

MindDoingTelevisionCelebrityMore

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Romesh Gunesekera

StoryDoingYouBackGoNew

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

Dianne Reeves

LoveNightCreateNewDifference

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Douglas Wood

FailureFearBestAlwaysBeen

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

Christa McAuliffe

YouDownSaidNowRealizeHappen

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