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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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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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 don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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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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The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.
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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)
