Jean Baudrillard Quotes

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Jean Baudrillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PossibleRealAlwaysGiveOnlyVery

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

Andrew Wylie

PersonYesHalfUsedClosetBooks

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

John Hodgman

CharacterPersonalityDifferentLike

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.

Jeff Kinney

ChildhoodBrotherSisterThinkLook

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Tracey Gold

YearDownOldYearsSelf-Esteem

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Jonah Peretti

DoingPossibleContentThroughPrint

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

Asdrubal Cabrera

FamilyMoneyBasketballEnoughPlay

It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

GoodJobHappyYouFindPassionate

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

Winnie Byanyima

PowerRulesBendPolicyWorking

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

William Lilly

GreatPeopleHouseRulesJudgment

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Polly Toynbee

PeopleInfluenceUnhappyUnemployment

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

Penn Jillette

GovernmentGunSomeoneYouGoDone

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

Perry Como

LifeTimeRegretWishNowKids

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