Raoul Vaneigem Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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My mother is my hero.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
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Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
