David LaChapelle Quotes
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
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Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.
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Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.
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People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
