Paul Strand Quotes
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.
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I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
