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.David LaChapelle
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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.
Kate Moss -
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.
Rachel Zoe -
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
Gail Porter -
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna -
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.
Lajos Kossuth -
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?'
Ice Cube -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton
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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.
Larry Bird -
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.
Ice Cube -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown -
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.
Bear Bryant -
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.
Wanda Sykes -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb
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The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.
Zicheng Hong -
Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.
Rachel Caine -
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
William Shakespeare -
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.
David LaChapelle