Louis Althusser Quotes
To become 'ideologists of the working class' (Lenin), 'organic intellectuals' of the proletariat (Gramsci), intellectuals have to carry out a radical revolution in their ideas: a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
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Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.
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Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
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To become 'ideologists of the working class' (Lenin), 'organic intellectuals' of the proletariat (Gramsci), intellectuals have to carry out a radical revolution in their ideas: a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle.
