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JACQUES AUDIARD It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, JACQUES AUDIARD The Beat That My Heart Skipped, JACQUES AUDIARD He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, JACQUES AUDIARD I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame. JACQUES ATTALI François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i... JACQUES ATTALI It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount. JACQUES ATTALI Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie La... JACQUES BARZUN The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ... JACQUES LACAN As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ... JACQUES LACAN Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my... JACQUES DERRIDA For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence... JACQUES ELLUL The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ... MARTIN JACQUES I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collecti... JACQUES DELORS In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the publi... 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