Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
Quotes to Explore
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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They hate whom they fear.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
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I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
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I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.
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I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.
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People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.
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You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
