David Maisel Quotes
I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
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Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
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I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.
