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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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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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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What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
