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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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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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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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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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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I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
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It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
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I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
