Alain Badiou Quotes
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
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Where there is fear there is aggression.
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Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.
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There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
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There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.
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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
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You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
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I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
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'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.
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Virginia Satir has suggested that we need from four to twelve hugs a day as part of our health maintenance.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
