Paul Strand Quotes
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.

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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.