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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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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You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
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The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.
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I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and I don't understand how they got the money for it. That said, there's a lot of bad telly, but there's also a lot of very high quality that is something I'd be much more proud of than a mediocre film.
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Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.
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Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.
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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
