Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Raoul Vaneigem

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• 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.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • American
  • Universe

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• 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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

  

  Nate Powell
  • You
  • Learning
  • Text

• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • American
  • Son

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Now

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Environment
  • Paris
  • Lived

• I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Arts

• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Campus

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Free

• As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Party
  • Proud
  • Journey

• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Business
  • Technology

• No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Future
  • Stop
  • Technology

• There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Technology
  • Philosophy