Jacques Lacan Quotes
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Quotes to Explore
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Tone matters more than words.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
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In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
