Walker Evans Quotes
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.Walker Evans
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
Valentino Rossi -
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard -
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
Maajid Nawaz -
I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
Fat Joe -
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
Rachel Kushner
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
Daniel Bryan -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons -
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
Rachel Kushner -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
Cameron Winklevoss -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben -
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair
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The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.
Darren Star -
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Ednita Nazario -
Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
Fernando Torres -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda -
When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
Jonathan Groff -
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.
Walker Evans