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“I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.”

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It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

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[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of…

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As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I…

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The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an…

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If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to…

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I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

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The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera…

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I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

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The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business,…

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Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that.…

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of…

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't…

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Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn…

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of…

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As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I…

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