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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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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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
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Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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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)
