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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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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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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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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Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.
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I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.
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I had applied for a job at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1948 and was called for a personal interview. However I failed to get selected. Many years later, I succeeded in finding out why I had been rejected. The remarks written by the selectors on my application were: 'This woman is headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated!'
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In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
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I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.
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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.
