Avital Ronell Quotes
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
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(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.)
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I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?
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I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the sunsets fade Be mourned serenely in my thought?
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That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.
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I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.
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When you have an opportunity to learn, you become smarter at more things. Having run government for four years, and being in charge of 26 departments, that's an education. So I think I'm savvier today. And probably more cynical.
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
