Adam Curtis Quotes

In 'Mad Men,' we watch a group of people who live in a prosperous society that offers happiness and order like never before in history and yet are full of anxiety and unease. They feel there is something more, something beyond. And they feel stuck.

Adam Curtis

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The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

Menachem Begin

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Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.

Tom Hollander

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I have always been a good mimic.

Robin Wright

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I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ronald Reagan

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You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

Chris Gabrieli

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We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged.

Claude Nicollier

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I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

Bobby Darin

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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Annie Lennox

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I'm just lucky to be working; I'm not trying to leave a legacy.

Shaun Evans

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Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

Murray Gell-Mann

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