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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

I believe in singing. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #i believe #i believe in #singing

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. ↗

— James Ellroy

#any #as far as #because #dead #deal

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#big movie #fiction #funny #get #i

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. ↗

— James Ellroy

#accent #been #eisenhower #everything #father

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness. ↗

— Rick Warren

#goodness #heaven #i #integrity

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. ↗

— Ben Elton

#feel #heaven #intense #love #made

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything. ↗

— John Elway

#believe #everything #go #i #i always