Serge Daney Quotes
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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God is never early and never late.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.
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The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
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Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
