Jacques Lacan Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have nothing to hide.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?
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In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
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Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it's been a fascinating window into my kids' world. It's been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways - and so much cooler than we were.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
