Imogen Cunningham Quotes
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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I can give you a 'Selfish,' and I can still come give you, like, a 'Jealous.' I'm coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I've been in with females. You just never know; I'm just coming different.
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I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it's going to be something different than I have already seen.
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
