Jacques Lacan Quotes
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.Jacques Lacan
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
Ian Mckellen -
We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
Francesca Annis -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
Rafael Nadal -
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali -
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos -
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
Aaron Eckhart -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
Kalpana Chawla -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward
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As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
Brad Feld -
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a temporary, passing thing.
Asghar Farhadi -
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
Ken Livingstone -
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
Andy Grove -
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan