Roland Barthes Quotes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980

Topics

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I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

John David Washington

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If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Andrew Yang

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The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.

Meir Soloveichik

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And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

Robert Sternberg

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Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.

Max Brooks

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I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

Michael Haneke

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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Steve Erickson

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He's as cool as a prized marrow!

Sid Waddell

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Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.

Mila Kunis

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We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Miguel de Unamuno

BestMeBelieveKnowNever

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

Janina Gavankar

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