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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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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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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I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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I'm afraid of peacocks.
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The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.
