William Klein Quotes
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
William Klein
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
Rachel Keller
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
Sam Brownback
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
Dale Murphy
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
Karen Salmansohn
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Zaha Hadid
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Ed Koch
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It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.
Chloe Sevigny
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My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.
Anton Corbijn
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For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.
Garry Winogrand
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Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.
Ana Navarro
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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
Sara Willis
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
William Klein
