William Eggleston Quotes
It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
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I was going to be a doctor, but who makes it as a doctor anymore?
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It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.
