You Quotes
59750 You quotes by 14392 unique authors
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot
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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
— Red Adair
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile…
— Red Adair
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But…
— David Bailey
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
— David Bailey
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a…
— David Bailey
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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
— David Bailey
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
— David Bailey
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
— David Bailey
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
— David Bailey
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You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
— David Bailey
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
— David Bailey
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov…
— David Bailey
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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed…
— David Bailey
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist'…
— David Bailey
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
— F. Lee Bailey
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
— Pearl Bailey
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just…
— Pearl Bailey
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
— Anita Baker
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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
— Alvin Adams
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
— Nicholson Baker
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
— Nicholson Baker
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