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To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've… — Ian Holloway
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a… — Martin Parr
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are… — Mary Ellen Mark
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving… — Sam Abell
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or… — Sam Abell
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan… — Wynn Bullock
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where… — Jerry Uelsmann
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon. — Ruth Bernhard
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture. — Ruth Bernhard
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation… — Susan Sontag
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
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make… — Edward Weston
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. — John Dewey
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the… — Yasser Seirawan
Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them… — Peter Singer
Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die. — Sandi Bachom
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the… — Ban Ki-moon
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for… — Coretta Scott King
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it… — Jay Sekulow
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of… — Unknown Author

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