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 try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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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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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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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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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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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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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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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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I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
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I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
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I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.
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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.
