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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I'm not an ace at small talk.
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My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
