David LaChapelle Quotes

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

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• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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  • For Her

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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  • World
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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Up
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• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • You
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• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Up
  • Today
  • Motivational

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• A lot of times we see choices in front of us, and we limit ourselves by what we see. God wants us to see His way of doing things. And His way is always greater than our ways.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Choices
  • Limit

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Mother

• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  

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  • Up
  • Mother
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• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Myself

• Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

  

  Meg Rosoff
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  • Job

• A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Study
  • Correlation
  • Astronomers

• There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.

  

  Emmanuelle Vaugier
  • School
  • High

• I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

  

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• In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • American
  • Political

• I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Up
  • God
  • Mother