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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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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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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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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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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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.
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Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
