David LaChapelle Quotes
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in the nature of consciousness. Why do we make art? And what can we expect to have in common with other creatures in universe?
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Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
