Aaron Siskind Quotes
If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I never really learned photography.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
