Alec Soth Quotes
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.
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Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.
