Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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The bars would have to provide places for people to dispose of cigarette butts outside. People would be smoking near the entrances, which may not look good to non-smokers.
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.
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I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.
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Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.
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Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
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The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
