David LaChapelle Quotes
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.
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Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
