Alec Soth Quotes
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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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I did painting before I did photography.
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It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
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[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
