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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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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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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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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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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When I returned to China from the United States, I didn’t have a U.S. passport, a wife, or a university degree. From the Chinese point of view, I was a total failure.
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I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
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Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
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I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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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.
