Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Raoul Vaneigem

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• We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Kids
  • Cool

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Reading

• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Evil
  • Potential

• Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Lost
  • Goal
  • Young

• People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Hatred is blind, as well as love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Great
  • Inspire

• I like action-adventure movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Action
  • Like
  • Movies

• The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Done
  • Song
  • English

• But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll
  • Occupation

• I was definitely inspired by Madonna.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Inspired
  • Madonna

• There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • Perfection
  • Simplicity
  • Models

• For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • Circus

• I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Dancing
  • Making
  • Inventing