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Adam Curtis Quotes

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Chaos Reality Messy Tell Simplify

When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously.

Jillian Michaels

People Think Loser You Lose Coming

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Responsibility Support You Values

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Good Find Boy Develop Every Sport

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.

Moments Kid Average Who His Had

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Choices Reality Taste Take Away Far

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Ideas Easy You Letting Go Go New

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.

Government Law Immigration Authority

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

Growth Think Reality You Tax Study

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Michael Rostovtzeff

Value Me Information Sometimes More

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Josephine Baker

Home Soul America Body Beast United

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Christopher Morley

People Loved Say Telephone Left

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Kid Got Just Stuff Lot

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