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 don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I want to win football games.
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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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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
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All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.
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In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.
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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
