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Paul de Man Quotes

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: belgian
Birth: December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983

Topics

Facts More Tenacious Than Much

I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.

Melina Matsoukas

Good Hate You Perfect Phone Looks

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

Nice Everyone Side Friendly Quite

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

Yourself Think You Crisis Need See

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

Tree Ocean People Climb Sharks

I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

Work Sunshine Better Like Much

The company culture is about being human, being good to other people. We recently did a survey with our drivers. 48 out of 50 said that they preferred driving with Lyft because they said that passengers were friendlier.

Good Culture People Driving Said

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Car Food Culture Identity Driving

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

Life Rest My Life Friends Easy Lose

I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.

Family Home Impossible You Down Go

I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.

Best Looking London Possible Shape

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Life Simple Accomplish Simple Life

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

Independence Remember You Know Also

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