quotes about Technological Advancement

“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

“With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.”

“You're here, and the only dance I want is this one.”

“Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.”

“I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.”

“Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.”

“I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.”

Source : "Captain Corelli's Mandolin : Interview With Penélope Cruz". www.cinema.com. 2001.

“The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.”

“I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah”

“They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.”