Claude Lanzmann Quotes

The human brain is not prepared to understand this - even on the steps of the gas chamber.

Claude Lanzmann

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Jesus
  • Teach

• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Reality
  • Him
  • Professor

• I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Help
  • House
  • Dad

• I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Care
  • Balance
  • Smiling

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Day
  • Now
  • Outside

• In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Me

• Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

  

  Barton Booth
  • Grief
  • Miracle
  • Rage

• Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Focus
  • Brand
  • Content

• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Hard

• I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Art
  • Honor

• What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

  

  Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Understand
  • Innocent
  • Chemistry

• Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.

  

  Arnold Sommerfeld
  • Understand
  • Thermodynamics
  • Go Through

• In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in art, then you have to have younger generations who are exploring your work and trying to understand it like a language.

  

  Mike Bidlo
  • Understand
  • Become
  • Generations

• The human brain is not prepared to understand this - even on the steps of the gas chamber.

  

  Claude Lanzmann
  • Understand
  • Human Brain
  • Gas chamber