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Jacques Audiard

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JACQUES VERGES Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological s...
JACQUES ELLUL Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ...
JACQUES LACAN The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
MARTIN JACQUES The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prim...
MARTIN JACQUES The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
MARTIN JACQUES The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu...
MARTIN JACQUES Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo...
JEPH JACQUES 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scor...
JEPH JACQUES If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
JEPH JACQUES Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the b...
JEPH JACQUES You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
JEPH JACQUES The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop...
JEPH JACQUES You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentra...
JEPH JACQUES Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
JEPH JACQUES There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster ...
JEPH JACQUES To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
JACQUES BOSSUET The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because ...
JACQUES BOSSUET But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, m...
JACQUES DERRIDA That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're ...
JEPH JACQUES Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
JEPH JACQUES Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
JACQUES BARZUN Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
JACQUES BARZUN The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a singl...
JACQUES MARITAIN