Jacques Lacan Quotes
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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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
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I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
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The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was 12. Because I know with all certainty in my mind, there is nothing wrong with being gay, and you know it.
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When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
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The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
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The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
