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.Paul Strand
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
Natalia Kills -
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Kara Walker
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Dan O'Brien -
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Karen Elson
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt -
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.
Aaron Stanford -
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.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor -
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.
Eddy Cue -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
Bayard Taylor -
I definitely get inspiration from the 'gram. I mean, Instagram is Google, essentially. I love looking at pictures of beautiful women.
SZA -
Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
Christian Bale -
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.
Paul Strand