Rouch Quotes & Sayings

We're nobody's dirty little secret. — Rebecca O'Donnell

In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. — Claire Denis

Glory to he who brings dispute. — Jean Rouch

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. — Simone De Beauvoir

Anger and fatigue well up all over the country. Fall has arrives, with its biting winds, its long rainy evenings. The gloom matches our overall mood. It mirrors the minds of the adults. And we children absorb everything, we drink everything in without anyone noticing, until the moment we get squeezed. We're baby sponges, you can't just wring us out, you have to be careful what you soak us in. Even washed, rinsed, dried a hundred times over, traces still remain in us. — Marzena Sowa

I argued earlier that clientelism is an early form of democracy: in societies with masses of poor and poorly educated voters, the easiest form of electoral mobilization is often the provision of individual benefits such as public-sector jobs, handouts, or political favors. This suggests that clientelism will start to decline as voters become wealthier. Not only does it cost more for politicians to bribe them, but the voters see their interests tied up with broader public policies rather than individual benefits. — Francis Fukuyama

I swallow and stare and swallow again, because dear, sweet Jesus riding a unicorn, he's perfect. — Cora Carmack

One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her. — Melanne Verveer

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact. — Herbert Marcuse

I don't think there's any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject, - a discovery of the "Other," an exploration of difference. — Jean Rouch

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception. — Jerome Lejeune

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily — Deborah McKinlay

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday. — Richard P. Feynman

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist. — Natalie Cole

There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does. — Millicent Ashby

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US. — Iyanla Vanzant

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together. — Paul Mazursky

A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. — Pope Francis

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you're a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you're a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. — Jean Rouch