Jacques Lacan Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you love- and what you love is usually what some other people have already done. It just depends on how much of a fool you make of yourself along the way to finding your own sound, assuming you find it.
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Love gives without taking.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
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Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
