Raymond Queneau Quotes
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Quotes to Explore
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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I don't take vacations.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
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Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.
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I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
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I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
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We're the generation that says 60 is the new 30. We don't let the numbers shape us; we're reshaping the numbers.
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There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
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It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.
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We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
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I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
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I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
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Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'
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I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
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It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
