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Roland Barthes Quotes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Roland Barthes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Language Speech Forget See

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

Jeffrey Tambor

Family Secrets Definition Families

People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'

Jeffrey Tambor

Life Family I Am People Talking Say

On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Day Football Saturday Body Steel

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Jeanne Moreau

Woman Man Never Being Actress Tune

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.

Amy Sedaris

Lot

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

Steve Ells

Stars Parents Start Restaurant Goal

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

Roger Ross Williams

Community Man Growing Up Black Gay

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Ronaldinho

Goals Time Loved You Goal Want

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

Money Back Africa Gone Going Made

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Louis Sullivan

Building Individuality Spirit Mass

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Joseph Stiglitz

Think Environment Seeing Too Much

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

Don Lemon

Respect Great People Think Speed