Chris Marker Quotes
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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She has seen the mystery hidUnder Egypt's pyramid:By those eyelids pale and closeNow she knows what Rhamses knows.
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Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.
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W.H. Auden has gone in the right direction, and a great deal too far.
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I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
