Harry Callahan Quotes
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?
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I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
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We hire people who are smarter than us.
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To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
