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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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 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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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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She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
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Yeah boyeee!
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, everyone makes you feel so at home. I miss my family of course, but I don't miss London that much. I was worried, but I feel really at home. Everyone says that who comes here from London, but I didn't believe them.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time.
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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.
