Adam Curtis Quotes

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does a very good job of describing that corruption, it is failing to bring it into a bigger focus. To explain what it is all about.

Adam Curtis

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It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

Robert Kraft

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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Stephen Gardiner

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We are putting value in the things that really are not valuable, things like commodities or disposable stuff that can bought, but the rainforest has been undervalued, because the value shouldn't be in the trees that you take out; it's should be with leaving the trees to preserve the life system that sustains life on the planet.

Trudie Styler

LifeValueTreesYouLeavingOut

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

Shura

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I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

Desi Arnaz

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Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

Donald Judd

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

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My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

Chen Guangbiao

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I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them.

Britney Spears

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I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Anne Sweeney

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There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

Allan Houston

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There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

Shawn Amos

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