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 -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
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 -
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 -
I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
Daniel Breaker -
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
Ted Lange
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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 -
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 -
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 -
You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
Rand Paul -
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
Vilfredo Pareto -
It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
Kage Baker
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
Oliver Goldsmith -
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.
Marc Jacobs -
We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
Margaret Fuller -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop -
An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
Ambrose Bierce
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The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.
Jay Parini -
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.
Cheryl Tiegs -
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.
Ian Mckellen -
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman -
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