Jean Baudrillard Quotes
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.
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People should take every opportunity they can to save money because it really adds up, and the best way I know to do that is to make your savings automatic.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
