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 think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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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 don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
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Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
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I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
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Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
