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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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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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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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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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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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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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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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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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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Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.
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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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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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Our army, if it exists for honorable purposes only, will draw to it honorable men. It will call to it the best men of our race- men of skill and culture. It will not be recruited as so many modern nations are, from those who are industrially useless.
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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.
