D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
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...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.
