Jacques Lacan Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
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Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
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I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.
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It's a major job to help men and women look beautiful.
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There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.
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It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.
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Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.
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So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.
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A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
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Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
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If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
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The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
