Claude Lanzmann Quotes

I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.

Claude Lanzmann

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• God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Feel

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• 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.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Very
  • Computers

• I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Team

• I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Love
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Character
  • Dying
  • Lead

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Competition
  • Ride
  • Canada

• There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Society
  • Literature
  • Sad

• The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • American
  • Today
  • Tough

• You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Consequences
  • Injustice

• For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Growing
  • Blue

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• However closely we may associate thought with the physical machinery of the brain, the connection is dropped as irrelevant as soon as we consider the fundamental property of thought-that it may be correct or incorrect. ...that involves recognising a domain of the other type of law-laws which ought to be kept, but may be broken.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • May
  • Law
  • Brain

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Death
  • Arrest

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.

  

  Claude Lanzmann
  • Death
  • Wanted
  • Shoah