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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wre

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes

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Books
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Roland Barthes
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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes

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Automobiles
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Sports
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People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. Hes the only superhero that cant die. – Robert Griffin III

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Sports

I grew up being into sports and I wasnt trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. Im the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals its always, OK, one more take for Zac. – Zac Efron

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Sports

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek

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Sports

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. – Randy Castillo

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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. – Elias Canetti

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