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6491 Instead quotes by 3769 unique authors
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,…
— Diane Arbus
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"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach…
— Edward Weston
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The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel…
— Edward Weston
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The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.…
— Wynn Bullock
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Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft.…
— Unknown Author
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Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There…
— Robert Heinecken
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So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if…
— Tony Kornheiser
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When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy…
— Steven Pinker
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If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a…
— Jeremy Silman
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What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,…
— Ken Bates
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Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.
— Pepe Reina
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
— H.G. Wells
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Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can…
— Dale Carnegie
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In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
— Unknown Author
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most…
— Barack Obama
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Realizing that other people have a problem with [homosexuality] was the weirdest thing for me. As a kid it wasn't even something that was mentioned.…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats…
— Vladimir Putin
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that…
— Barack Obama
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I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance…
— Bob Beamon
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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult…
— Donald Bradman
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If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily…
— Thomas Carlyle
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