Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Simply put, female friendships face more obstacles because they often involve more emotion, more expectations and more potential for conflict.
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People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.
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My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.
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I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?
