Allan Sekula Quotes
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
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It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.
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I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
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How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
