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BRIAN JACQUES Wot Wot BRIAN JACQUES I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back t... JACQUES DERRIDA This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ... JACQUES PEPIN Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. JACQUES DERRIDA The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical... JACQUES ELLUL These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned.... JACQUES CHIRAC After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what ... JACQUES PEPIN If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com... JACQUES DERRIDA When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don&... JACQUES PEPIN You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener... JACQUES LACAN Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. JACQUES AUDIARD When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. JACQUES PEPIN It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people. JACQUES VILLENEUVE All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f... JACQUES LIPCHITZ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,... JACQUES COUSTEAU And now, the end is near, And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo... JACQUES ELLUL The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical... JACQUES ELLUL The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg... JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w... JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist... JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. BRIAN JACQUES I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. JACQUES DERRIDA It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this, BRIAN JACQUES I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha! BRIAN JACQUES I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --... BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it, BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f... BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is. BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th... BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins... JACQUES LACAN Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital d... JACQUES BARZUN The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do... JACQUES DERRIDA We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their... JACQUES MARITAIN The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th... JACQUES ELLUL