Serge Daney Quotes
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.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
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I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.
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Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.
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In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.
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I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky.
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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
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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.
