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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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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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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We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.
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I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
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I'm never gonna make it without you Do you really wanna see me crawl ? And I'm never gonna make it like you do Making love out of nothing at all.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
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Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.
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In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
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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.
