Etienne Decroux Quotes
The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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A true man hates no one.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
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The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’
