Martin Gore quote: "Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out."

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh...
MARTIN GORE

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The...
MARTIN GORE

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo...
MARTIN GORE

There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
MARTIN GORE

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of ...
MARTIN GORE

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
MARTIN GORE

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of...
MARTIN GORE

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.
MARTIN GORE

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha...
MARTIN GORE

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one o...
MARTIN GORE

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film ...
MARTIN GORE

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ...
GORE VIDAL

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
GORE VIDAL

I can understand companionship.
GORE VIDAL

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He u...
GORE VIDAL

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li...
GORE VIDAL

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
GORE VIDAL

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p...
GORE VIDAL

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them ...
GORE VIDAL

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a pol...
GORE VIDAL

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No Fi...
GORE VIDAL

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some eviden...
GORE VIDAL

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDAL

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
AL GORE

How could this [Y2K] be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
AL GORE

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glo...
AL GORE

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the...
AL GORE

I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country...
AL GORE

The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up al...
AL GORE

The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possib...
AL GORE

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume th...
AL GORE

to mend some fences, both literally and figuratively.
AL GORE

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDAL

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ...
GORE VIDAL

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDAL

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness witho...
GORE VIDAL

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an...
GORE VIDAL

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness...
GORE VIDAL

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ...
AL GORE

Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
GORE VIDAL

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
GORE VIDAL

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence...
GORE VIDAL

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDAL

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr...
GORE VIDAL

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex...
GORE VIDAL

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDAL

Never have children, only grand children.
GORE VIDAL

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,...
GORE VIDAL

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ...
GORE VIDAL

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C...
GORE VIDAL

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time...
GORE VIDAL

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master...
GORE VIDAL

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a...
GORE VIDAL

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi...
GORE VIDAL

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
TIPPER GORE

For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are...
GORE VIDAL

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDAL

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ...
GORE VIDAL

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...
GORE VIDAL

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh...
GORE VIDAL

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag...
GORE VIDAL

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ...
GORE VIDAL

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,...
GORE VIDAL

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDAL

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live...
GORE VIDAL

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
GORE VIDAL

Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL

All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ...
GORE VIDAL

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...
GORE VIDAL

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we...
GORE VIDAL

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDAL

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
ARIEL GORE

I'm a born-again atheist.
GORE VIDAL

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...
GORE VIDAL

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDAL

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up...
AL GORE

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real trag...
GORE VIDAL

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th...
GORE VIDAL

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, t...
GORE VIDAL

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.
KRISTIN GORE

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about ...
ARIEL GORE

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a deb...
GORE VIDAL

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animat...
GORE VERBINSKI

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something y...
GORE VERBINSKI

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor...
GORE VERBINSKI

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shar...
GORE VERBINSKI

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDAL

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
AL GORE

I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is g...
AL GORE

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body...
KRISTIN GORE

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set...
KRISTIN GORE

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
AL GORE

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ...
ARIEL GORE

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls ...
AL GORE

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a...
GORE VIDAL

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for m...
GORE VIDAL

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDAL

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...
GORE VIDAL

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
GORE VIDAL

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Repu...
GORE VIDAL

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscene...
AL GORE

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not al...
GORE VIDAL

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr...
AL GORE

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil ...
AL GORE

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
AL GORE

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a c...
AL GORE

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and g...
AL GORE

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain...
AL GORE

By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re...
GORE VIDAL

It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDAL

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t...
GORE VIDAL

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...
AL GORE

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased beha...
GORE VIDAL

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w...
GORE VIDAL

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ...
LESLEY GORE

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf...
GORE VIDAL

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha...
AL GORE

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital informat...
AL GORE

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that...
GORE VERBINSKI

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dram...
AL GORE

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a f...
GORE VIDAL

I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev...
AL GORE

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDAL

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-li...
ARIEL GORE

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could ev...
AL GORE

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he wa...
GORE VIDAL

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are ...
AL GORE

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDAL

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyd...
AL GORE

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
GORE VIDAL

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four per...
GORE VIDAL

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to ...
AL GORE

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
GORE VIDAL

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for chan...
AL GORE

No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be...
GORE VIDAL

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDAL

Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDAL

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the sc...
GORE VIDAL

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDAL

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don...
AL GORE

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als...
GORE VIDAL

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriousl...
GORE VIDAL

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fash...
AL GORE

The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The q...
AL GORE

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known an...
AL GORE

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice ...
AL GORE

I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for m...
KRISTIN GORE

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
KRISTIN GORE

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself a...
GORE VIDAL

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
TIPPER GORE

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Many people have...
CHARLES GORE

Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ...
CHARLES GORE

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the...
CHARLES GORE

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ...
CHARLES GORE

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. ...
TIPPER GORE

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pull...
GORE VERBINSKI

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the ...
TIPPER GORE

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil...
AL GORE

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
GORE VIDAL

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
GORE VIDAL

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
GORE VIDAL

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
GORE VIDAL

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDAL

I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to ...
GORE VIDAL

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for c...
GORE VIDAL

I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing
GORE VIDAL

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi...
GORE VIDAL

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
GORE VIDAL

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who...
GORE VIDAL

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDAL

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDAL

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we ca...
GORE VIDAL

Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL

It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four p...
GORE VIDAL

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is ...
GORE VIDAL

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand th...
GORE VIDAL

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
GORE VIDAL

Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDAL

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

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