Nick Veasey Quotes
My work is a statement against superficiality. X-Ray, the process I use, looks inside my subjects and reveals what is normally hidden under the surface. X-Ray is an honest process. It has integrity. It shows things for what they really are. With that in mind I chose musicians that have credibility and talent.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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My work is a statement against superficiality. X-Ray, the process I use, looks inside my subjects and reveals what is normally hidden under the surface. X-Ray is an honest process. It has integrity. It shows things for what they really are. With that in mind I chose musicians that have credibility and talent.
