Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
