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.
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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.
Edmund White
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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.
Manny Pacquiao
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter
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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.
Karla Souza
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
Samira Wiley
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
Pat Buckley
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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.
Eden Sher
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. Ward
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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.
Daniel Barenboim
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
Carlos Fuentes
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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.
Carine Roitfeld
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
Gabe Kaplan
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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
Nancy Cartwright
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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.
Garrett Hedlund
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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.
Taylor Dane
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
Daisaku Ikeda
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…surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life…in a country where no involvement was possible…better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work?
Anthony Burgess
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I don't like things set in stone.
Vanessa Paradis
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There's only one earth. And there's no spare.
Wubbo Ockels
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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.
Jacques Lacan