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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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'm not a big jazz fan.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
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The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not.
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Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.
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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.
