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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Unfortunately, I had to pull out of Vancouver. I'm really sorry; I didn't expect to go this far in Rogers Cup, and I just wanted to say, just apologize.
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It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.
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I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.
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I'm dying always.
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Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
