Ivan Illich Quotes
The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
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I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
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It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.
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Real beauty is never vain.
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The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.
