William Eggleston Quotes
I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
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I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."
