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Adam Curtis Quotes

Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: May 26, 1955

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Change Job Past World Present Find

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

Andrea Mitchell

War Philadelphia Race Vietnam War

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

Good People Laugh I Can Being Like

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do.

Good Women Feel Good Feel Say Try

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

Sleeping Poor California Always Meal

It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.

Good Day Training Relax Better Diet

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Jonathan Franzen

Step Me Security Realize Up Plot

I don't tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I'm putting a tour together, I'm not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can't do this or that.

Love Money Together Me Sitting Tell

I watched 'The Wire' religiously.

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Human Helpless Like Babies

'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

People Video Games Game Speak Black

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

Rejection You Bad Will Never First

If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they've hurt me. I believe you should say what you're feeling. We should all do that, but what I've also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I'm reminding them that there's a deeper meaning to what they're doing.

Social Media Me Believe Negative

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