#gel

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#change #cultural #driven #exclusive #great

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#agency #agent #angeles #brought #come

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#big #down #down the road #how #hugely

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. ↗

— Jane Addams

#becomes #child #determined #future #hence

I believe in angels, so it's simple. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #simple

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#believe #god #hereafter #i #i do

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#angeles #been #boys and girls #city #club

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#angelou #being #critics #heart #maya

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#becoming #decided #follow #girlfriend #given