Joel Sternfeld Quotes
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
Quotes to Explore
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
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This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
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Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
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I'm painfully shy.
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Accept your own and be yourself!
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The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
