Jean Baudrillard Quotes
The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.
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You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'
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Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.
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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
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Apparently this r had to be worked for: Varya told me that as a child she couldn’t pronounce it properly, and that her father would make her repeat a series of exercises about gorgeous grapes growing on Mount Ararat and three hundred thirty-three drummers drumming on three hundred thirty-three drums.
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The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)
