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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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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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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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.
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My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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Perhaps if they're not happy here they can go back to Iran and try their luck with ayatollahs, if they don't like the planning regime or my approach.
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My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
