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Roland Barthes has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
— Luke Bryan
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one…
— Jim Leyland
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286…
— Unknown Author
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
— Barry Trotz
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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
— Harry Sinden
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I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other…
— Ronald Reagan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
— Aldo Leopold
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The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
— Peter Kreeft
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
— Howard Zinn
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
— Howard Zinn
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If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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