Alexander Bard Quotes
We are born as psychotics, we die as neurotics, we merely try to stay alive in between - as perverts. Welcome to the world of Lacanian phenomenology.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
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I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.
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We are born as psychotics, we die as neurotics, we merely try to stay alive in between - as perverts. Welcome to the world of Lacanian phenomenology.
