David LaChapelle Quotes
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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I use Facebook on a daily basis to share information about my work in Congress and across our great district. I put information about constituent meetings, video of various Congressional hearings, and share local news stories from around our region.
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The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.
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New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.
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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
