Jean Baudrillard Quotes
The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I'm not super into sports.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.
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If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
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Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
