Jean Baudrillard Quotes
THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)
Quotes to Explore
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.
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As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.
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My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.
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We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
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France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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I counted them all out and I counted them all back.
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THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)
