Alain Badiou Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
-
All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
-
Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
-
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.
-
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
-
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
-
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Where there is fear there is aggression.
-
Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.
-
There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
-
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.
-
“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
-
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
-
'as Tim Burton Anyone who knows me will tell you that I would never read a comic book.' Which, to me, explains fucking Batman.
-
When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.
-
Without mathematics, we are blind.
