Yousuf Karsh Quotes
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
