Jacques Ellul Quotes
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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Europe can be saved.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
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If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
