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.
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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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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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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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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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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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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.
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Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.
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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.
