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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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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.
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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.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
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Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'
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To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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I always have a cigar when I catch a fish.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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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.
