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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The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
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Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.
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I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
