Claude Lanzmann Quotes
To be anti-Zionist is to not want Zion to exist, to not want the Jews who live there to exist - it is to wish them death.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
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Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.
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In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
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In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
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To be anti-Zionist is to not want Zion to exist, to not want the Jews who live there to exist - it is to wish them death.
