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Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same. Adam Curtis

Change World Job Past Aim Ways Systems Find Constantly Record Risen Recorded Throughout New Discover Western Up Western World Same Stopping Patterns Then Compare Whose Keeping Things Monitor Present Coincidences

You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed. Adam McKay

You Looking Past Every Guard Everything Signal Security Feed Leading Know Safe Fake Hallway How Diamonds Cameras Quiet Get Movie Screens Jamming Notice Show Bogus Switching

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals. Adam Shankman

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Adolf Loos

Past Before Beginning Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Abandoned Point Renew Because Built Tradition Times Intend Just Century Present

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' Adora Svitak

Love Religion Fight Natural People World Sometimes Made Long Past Our Resources Would Give More Between Over Name Occupy Still Issues Up Did Same Current Maybe Just Regions Them Natural Resources Realize Comparisons

I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day. Agnes Gund

Day Creativity Walk Single Past Sense Design Every Everyday Our City Windows Objects Park Inspired Dazzling Single Day Buildings Am Exhilaration Encounter Discovery Same Just Store Use Billboards Streets Every Single Day

I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware. Agnetha Faltskog

At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop. Aimee Bender

Writing Sometimes Past Members About Hours Know Because Readings Audience Audience Members Roll Stop Ask Figure Keep Two

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that. Aimee Mann

It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money. Akira Toriyama

Money Past Secret No Choice Cartoonist Magazine Had Put Deadline Becoming Go Motivation Jump Prize Decided Choice Apply

I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase. Akkineni Nagarjuna

Past Think Way About Anymore Stardom Phase

I scare the neighbors, the kids... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years. Al Jourgensen

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke. Al Jourgensen

Me You People Sometimes Fire Party Past Doubt Wild Oats No Doubt Some About Give Shake Fair Fair Shake Periods Smoke Leather Yeah Malicious Person Get Tattoos Just Where Stories Heavyweight

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. Alan Dundes

Future Time Worldview Past Mentioned Involves American Formulas Present

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past. Alan Jackson

Liquids may have existed on the surface of Pluto in the past. Alan Stern

Past Pluto Surface Existed Liquid May In The Past

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me. Alan Taylor

Love Me Past Drawing Thrill Cultures Human Just

In the past, I had workaholic issues. Alanis Morissette

Past Had Issues In The Past Workaholic

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out. Albert Bandura

Day Behavior Past Community Society Immediate Range Television Members Out Vastly Day-Out Advent Practices Styles Were Modeling Models Confined Influences In The Past Which Social Exposed Largely

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Albert Claude

Faith Trust Courage Ethics Will Made Men Past Tolerance Sight Find Spirit New Periods Greatest Equilibrium Occurred Itself Common Mankind Us Let Us Code Now

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