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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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
