Avital Ronell Quotes
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
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Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
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I think (West Virginia) played with a great deal of heart and determination. They were small, but they fought hard. I don't know if we overlooked them, but there is no point complaining about it. We deserved to lose.
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.
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Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.
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Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
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I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.
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I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
