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Alain Badiou Quotes

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain Badiou

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: January 17, 1937

Topics

Love Destiny Chance Transition Kind

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mel Brooks

Great Know Stage See Got Like

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

Amy Klobuchar

Change Woman Washington Become Bring

Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Change Learning Day Week You Go

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Trevor Noah

History Comedy You Look Always Been

I am an anthologist, you see. I sort of make anthologies for people.

Roger Rees

I Am People You See Make Sort

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

Rosalind Wiseman

Mother Problems I Can Expert Complex

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Lou Reed

Work Keep Going New York Writing New

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Derek Bok

Education Higher Education Embrace

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

Flower Gardening Shy Sweetest Smells

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

Peter Dinklage

Great Think Camera Quiet Admire Up

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

Penelope Cruz

Work Character Happy Me Process

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.

Shane McAnally

Song Thinking Tools Someone You Gay