Raoul Peck Quotes
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
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I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.
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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
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The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
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I love being able to change from big films to small films.
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The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.
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Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
