Claude Lanzmann Quotes
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I leave now to return. Travel far to be close.
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We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
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Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.
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Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
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Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
