Alejandro Ghersi (Arca) Quotes

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

Alejandro Ghersi

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• Ashamed
• Compulsion

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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

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• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

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• To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

  

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• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  

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• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

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• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

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• Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer.

  

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• People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

  

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• Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

  

  Alejandro Ghersi
  • Feeling
  • Ashamed
  • Compulsion