David LaChapelle Quotes
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
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A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
