Daido Moriyama Quotes
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.
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I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'
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I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.
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Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
