Raoul Peck Quotes
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
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WWE has no issues with my stand-up. I do not miss work for any reason and will continue to work around my schedule because I'm a professional and do not allow complacency or laziness.
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And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.
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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
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If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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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.
