"Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight."

-- Camille Paglia

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”
“Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.”
“But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.”
“A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.”

Source : "Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Marc Platt and John DeLuca Talk INTO THE WOODS, The Singing, The Cow, Working with Rob Marshall and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. December 29, 2014.
“Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms”
“And so with Hemingway's writing, he famously wrote to one of his publishers - he said, you don't need a high school education to enjoy my writing. And it's going to titillate the masses. I mean, anybody can relate to it, but the style is so revolutionary that it will titillate highbrow critics, which it did.”
“To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.”
“We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.”

Source : "'Things Could Get Pretty Messy'". Interview with Steve Moore, www.wsj.com. October 2, 2010.

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