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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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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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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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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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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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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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the court or the balls. But those are excuses. You have to accept when you don't play well and somebody else does.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
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Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
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The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.
