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.
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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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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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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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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
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Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
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The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in microelectronics.
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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.
