Camille Desmoulins (Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins) Quotes

Burning is no answer.

Camille Desmoulins

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• My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
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  • Computers

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
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• If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

  

  Ed Parker
  • Giving
  • Question
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• I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Desire
  • Photography
  • Burning

• I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theater company in New York, but calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been canceled. This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences--all of us are the losers.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Fear
  • Independent
  • Theatre

• I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Today
  • Answers
  • Ifs

• Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Problem
  • Genius
  • Answers

• I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Time
  • Information

• We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Rest

• Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Why
  • Answers
  • Doe

• I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Censorship
  • Survived

• I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Honest

• I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Answers
  • Creator
  • Willing

• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Die

• Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Bored

• The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Blood
  • Sin

• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Comes
  • Pass

• I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.

  

  Robert Wilkie
  • Family
  • Listening
  • Commander

• Burning is no answer.

  

  Camille Desmoulins
  • Answers
  • Burning
  • Censorship