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 don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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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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Perhaps never before have the peoples of the world been so close to losing the very core of their humanity; for of what use are cosmic energies, if they are handled by disoriented and demoralized men?
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Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.
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So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.
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You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
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There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
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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.
