Louis Althusser Quotes

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Louis Althusser

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Art
  • Space
  • Best

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Think
  • Direction

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Past
  • Memories
  • Bridge

• When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Athlete

• Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Know
  • Quality
  • Yourself

• Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Success
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty

• One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

  

  Hal David
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Learn

• Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Reality
  • Hand
  • Always

• You have to respect your opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Respect
  • Opponent

• In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Old
  • Farm

• There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • Different
  • Today

• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sky

• Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Hand

• You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Character

• I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

  

  David Blaine
  • Time

• If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Nice
  • Mean

• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Sadness

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  Louis Althusser