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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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
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A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
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Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.
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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.
