Gabriel Vahanian Quotes

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

Gabriel Vahanian

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • You
  • Me
  • Either

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Happy
  • Without
  • Be Happy

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Feels
  • Enough
  • Audience

• Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • World
  • Trying
  • Job

• And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?

  

  Delia Ephron
  • God
  • Mistake
  • Mirror

• A drop of ink may make a million think.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Think
  • Ink

• If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • World
  • Rest
  • English

• Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

  

  Gabriel Vahanian
  • World
  • God
  • Luxury