Rene Girard (René Noël Théophile Girard) Quotes
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
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When I was quite young... I began to suspect there must be flaws in my sense of reality. It seemed to my dim sense of confusion that things often blended one into another, and the Law of Excluded Middle merely opened up a void wherein anything was possible. But I had been produced to focus on objects (things) and not on systems (processes).
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When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
