Jacques Lacan Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
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Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.
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When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
