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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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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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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Voluntary birth control methods only work on the people who choose to use ’em. A population check that doesn’t work on everybody doesn’t work at all, because it simply breeds out the ones who use it. The only population check that really works is one that affects everybody, like a limit of space or food.
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
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So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.
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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)
