Quote by Roland Barthes
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of tro

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Society
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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 the spark. – Roland Barthes

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Sports
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Interviews
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. – Oscar Wilde

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Interviews

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it. – Serge Daney

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Interviews

The best interviews — like the best biographies — should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. – Lynn Barber

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Interviews

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement. – Gilbert Harding

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Interviews

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