Jean Baudrillard Quotes
Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate. (p. 42)
Quotes to Explore
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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Writing bores me so.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.
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...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
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Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate. (p. 42)
