Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été.
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Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
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I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.
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The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
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Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
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I don't know that I'd want to do acting as a job, not as a proper job. I'd like to do it as a hobby. I want to be a supply teacher. I'd like to be one of those teachers that kids really like.
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It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
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The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
