David LaChapelle Quotes

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

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• In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Effort
  • Progress
  • Will

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Now

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • World
  • Men
  • Forever

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • World
  • Desire

• If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Go

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Children
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Literature

• Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Life Is A

• Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People
  • Reality
  • Food

• I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Work
  • School
  • Art