Jean Baudrillard Quotes
One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Jean Baudrillard
Quotes to Explore
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
Jack Nicklaus
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
Tammy Blanchard
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
Gail Collins
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
Gabrielle Union
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
Gary Lineker
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
Carlene Carter
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
Karen Handel
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
A. S. Byatt
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
Oscar Hijuelos
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.
John Travolta
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
Natalie Imbruglia
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It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
Joan Didion
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One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Jean Baudrillard
