If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Field of Dreams

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Taking risks

Speaker

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Actor

Ray Liotta

Source

Field of Dreams

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Drama (film) Sports Drama

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Gordon Company, 1989.

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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

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Modern life

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Jean Baudrillard
Source
Cool Memories
Language
French
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Baudrillard, Jean. Cool Memories: 1980-1985. Editions Galilee, 1987, ch. 1.

Another quote about Taking risks

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

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Courage Taking risks Life

Author

Vincent Van Gogh
Source
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Question
Language
Dutch
Time
1881 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 29 Dec. 1881.

Current Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Forrest Gump

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Randomness Unpredictability
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Forrest Gump
Actor
Tom Hanks
Source
Forrest Gump
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1994 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.

Pyrrhus

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

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Pyrrhic victory Victory
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Pyrrhus

Author

Plutarch
Source
Plutarch's Lives
Genre
Biography
Statement Type
Paradox Prophecies and predictions
Language
Greek
Time
279 BC 270s BC 3rd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 21, sect. 9.

Current Citation

Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 21, sect. 9.