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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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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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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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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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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My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
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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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Now, I simply do what I want.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
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The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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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.
