Bill Cunningham Quotes
Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.
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One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
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I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.
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Most of my pictures are never published. I just document things I think are important. For instance, I've documented the gay pride parade from its first days.
