Alec Soth Quotes
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
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Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.
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Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.
