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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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
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He's an amazing talent. He's probably the most explosive back since Marshall Faulk and Barry Sanders.
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Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
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Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.
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I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
