Bill Copeland Quotes
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
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As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
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The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
