Guy Debord Quotes

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

Guy Debord

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 28, 1931 - November 30, 1994

Topics

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I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

Joan Collins

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As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

Jennifer Granholm

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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.

Jen Lancaster

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

Maureen Dowd

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Courage is action, not talk.

Jeff Rich

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Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Michael Ignatieff

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The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

Josh Hamilton

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I do hate Trump. I find him to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up. It is one thing after another, daily.

Chrissy Teigen

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The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

Philip Roth

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That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

Peter Marino

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But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.

Todd Solondz

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