Alain Badiou Quotes
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.
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I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.
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We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
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You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.
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The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
