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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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.
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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
