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.

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Human
  • Stories
  • Ends

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• 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.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• 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.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
  • Cake

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• 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.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• 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!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Employees

• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Will

• He was never without misery, and never without hope.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hope
  • Misery

• I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith

• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Funny
  • Person

• The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Writing

• I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Matter