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People Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by…
- The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But…
- His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf…
- People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled…
- All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance…
- If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or…
- I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just…
- I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
- There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle