Gabriel Vahanian Quotes
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Music is my release.
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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.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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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.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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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.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build
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The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence.
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When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.
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I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
