Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
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The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.
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Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
