David Bloor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.
-- David Bloor

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Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.
-- David Bloor

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Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
There are different reasons to make movies.
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

David Bloor famous quotes

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