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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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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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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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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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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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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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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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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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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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
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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)
