Frans Lanting Quotes
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
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Another thing which is about as sure as death and taxes, is that no man can go on bluffing indefinitely without being called.
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Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.
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I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.
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A woman is as young as her knees.
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That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.
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I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
