Jacques Ellul Quotes
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.Jacques Ellul
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright -
There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
Earl Weaver -
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
Wendell Mayes -
I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray -
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
Irwin Winkler -
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
Dan Fogler -
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Ira Glass -
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett -
I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
Natalie Cole
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin -
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
Salma Hayek -
You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
Natasha Little -
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu -
My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe
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I can confidently say that I am comfortable with all the directors, co-star and producers with whom I have worked; there have been absolutely no tensions.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
Tom Cruise -
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. ... One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
Joaquin Phoenix -
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Jacques Ellul