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)
Quotes to Explore
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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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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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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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All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.
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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
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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)
