Jacques Ellul Quotes
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
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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.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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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.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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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.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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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.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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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.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.
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I believe this was Margaret Thatcher estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
