"I was definitely looking for a reason to……" — Jonathan Nolan
"I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Nolan
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Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.
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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look…
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We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.
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I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use…
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Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind…
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Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find…
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I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and…
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I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I…
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One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When…
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I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final…
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You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in…
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We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon,…
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More Anarchy Quotes
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Grown men do not need leaders.
— Edward Abbey
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
— Alan Bennett
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle…
— Aeschylus
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
— Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
— Charles Bukowski
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