Allan Sekula Quotes
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I will run against anybody.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
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Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
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I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.
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Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
