Joel Sternfeld Quotes
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I make hits.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.
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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
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I raced in London in the 2012 Olympics, and it was incredible to be a part of, with half a million people watching and then later seeing kids going back to cycle.
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Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.
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To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.
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All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
