Adam Curtis Quotes

Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West - and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside.

Adam Curtis

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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

John Dryden

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SoulWorldSayingYouAliveKnow

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Alvin Lee

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When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

Robby Gordon

YouOutOptionsGasMany

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

Roger Daltrey

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It's intense having twins. There's no way to prepare for it, but it's been... the greatest thing to ever happen to me.

Johnny Messner

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Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christopher Columbus

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Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers.

Brian L. Roberts

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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

Alice Greczyn

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When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they're thinking about.

Winnie Holzman

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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Poppy Z. Brite

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