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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.


J. G. Ballard


#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!


Isabella Rossellini


#dictator #i #model #myself #really

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.


Jean de la Bruyere


#finds #good #himself #ill #man

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.


Gisele Bundchen


#challenge #challenges #choose #everything #family

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.


Chris Isaak


#car #changes #dial #driving #even

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.


Bianca Jagger


#countries #democracy #doubt #great #i

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.


Fredric Jameson


#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.


Leon Jaworski


#extremist #i #incompetent #moderate #rather

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.


Hu Jintao


#aware #basically #build #china #country

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.


Michael Johns


#apparatus #created #forms #history #into