Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007

Topics

LoveCourageMeasureFeelingsPlay

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

Jimmy Webb

MoneyPeopleWritingSingingOwn

I think the evening wear criteria is that they want to walk into the room and get that 'wow' factor.

Jenny Packham

WalkThinkEveningWantRoomWear

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Jens Lekman

HumorWritingYouSense Of Humor

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Melvyn Bragg

TimeMemoryMeStartUniverseSand

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Anaxagoras

GodGreatSpaceSunMoonRock

We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Because this is brought in - because we do not have a border.

Ann Coulter

BorderProblemCountryKnowNowWhy

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

Steve Hanke

ControlRecognitionStartedGreece

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

Steven Pinker

MoreOwnFarViolentThanOur

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

Simon Rattle

MusiciansWorryToo MuchSometimes

As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!'

Claire Messud

FriendChildhoodSleepMeStory

An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

FightGoldWorldToolsRingNever

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Phillip Lim

LifeFamilyBusinessParentsDoctor

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