Allan Sekula Quotes
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
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You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
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I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
