Jacques Lacan Quotes
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.
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I've had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.
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I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
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There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
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When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.
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It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past.
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Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?
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Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.
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If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).
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For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
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A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.
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The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
