Raoul Peck Quotes

You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

Raoul Peck

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• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Growth

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Hard

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
  • Work
  • Great
  • Problem

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Down
  • Poor

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Animals

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Problem
  • Step
  • First Step

• I'd make a million songs with Game because we never had no real problem.

  

  Young Thug
  • Real
  • Game
  • Problem

• I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Problem
  • For Her

• We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Style

• We should learn from the mistakes and experiences of others, particularly from those less knowledgable than we are. If our experiences are not grounded in reality, our decisions can never be correct.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Reality

• Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • Reality

• If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Up
  • Reality

• We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Action

• Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • Rock
  • Everyday
  • Beach

• What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Work

• ...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

  

  Katrina Kenison
  • Moments
  • Awake
  • Charmed

• You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Persons